Professional Development – 2022 – Week 45

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Diversity and inclusion

6 Behavioral Nudges to Reduce Bias in Hiring and Promotions (via HBR)

  1. Generate ranked criteria (i.e., pre-determined, prioritized qualifications for a position)
  2. Challenge yourself to support the opposite opinion (we tend to favor early options and undervalue contradictory evidence that comes later)
  3. Modify the environment; choice architecture = how alternatives are presented to decision-makers. For example, people make different decisions when they are tired or hungry
  4. Invert the default rules (e.g., promote people by default unless there’s some reason they shouldn’t be )
  5. Use planning prompts to articulate concrete action plans
  6. Shape information effectively; it needs to be compelling and can be framed as a gain or a loss

Technology

What Is a Developer Experience Team? (via SWLW)

I don’t think my current company is quite big enough to have this formally defined, but I appreciated the example focus areas (e.g., documentation experience, ease of debugging production systems) and the ways they solicited feedback. Definitely filing away for reference.