Dates covered: July 23-29, 2018 (week 30 of 52)
Business
- It Costs $50k to Hire a Software Engineer (via The Software Mentor)
- How U.S. Law Needs to Change to Support the Self-Employed and Gig Economy (via Harvard Business Review)
- A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management (via Harvard Business Review)
Career
- Take Control of Your Learning at Work (via Harvard Business Review)
- Five pieces of advice for new technical leads (via The Software Mentor)
- The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers (via The Software Mentor)
- How to Advance in Your Career When Your Boss Won’t Help (via Harvard Business Review)
Communication
- A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote (via Harvard Business Review)
- Speaking Fundamentals (via Communication for Technologists channel)
Culture
- 3 Reasons Why High Performers Are Often Miserable (always asked to do more work, complaints are ignored, low performers not held accountable) (via The Software Mentor)
- Move Slowly and Fix Things (via The Software Mentor)
- 5 Mistakes Companies Make About Growth Mindsets (via Harvard Business Review)
- The Most Creative Teams Have a Specific Type of Cultural Diversity (via Harvard Business Review)
- In Collaborative Work Cultures, Women Carry More of the Weight (via Harvard Business Review)
Leadership
- The New Manager Death-Spiral
- Working the Weekly 1:1 (via Cameron Presley)
- Applying “systems thinking” to turbocharge your leadership effectiveness (via Software Lead Weekly)
Process
- Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part 1 (via The Software Mentor)
- Are You Productive Enough? (via Harvard Business Review)
- How Behavioral Economics Could Help Reduce Credit Card Delinquency (via Harvard Business Review)
- Running an Effective Staff Meeting (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How to read (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software development
- Looking at TDD: An Academic Survey (via The Software Mentor)
- Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar (via The Software Mentor)
- Defensive Programming Grows Up (via The Software Mentor)