Dates covered: January 15-21, 2018 (week 3 of 52) Career When Is It Time to Leave? (via The Software Mentor) No, I Have No Side Hustles to Show You (via Erik Dietrich) What Does a CEO Actually Do? (via Freakonomics Radio)…
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Professional Development – 2018 – Week 2
Dates covered: January 8-14, 2018 (week 2 of 52) Career What’s the Difference between Entry-level and Junior-level and Senior-level Developers? (via The Software Mentor) Knowledge in software development: what’s your wood lot? (via The Software Mentor) .NET Rocks! 1510: Finding a…
Behavioral Interview Template
In this post, I share my current template for interviewing other software developers. If you ask N people how best to interview, you’ll likely get N unique answers. What I did was combine suggested interview strategies and questions from several sources I’ve encountered over…
Professional Year in Review (2017)
DPRA, Inc. Team leader Was promoted to team leader (mid-January); this involved aiding in release planning, assignment of work, knowledge acquisition from subject matter experts, sharing information with the development team, improving inter-department communication through shared documentation, and establishing/maintaining best…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 51
Dates covered: December 18-24, 2017 (week 51 of 52) Career My Most Challenging Experience as a Software Developer (via The Software Mentor) Care and Feeding of Burnout (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Learning to embrace conflict as a part of…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 50
Dates covered: December 11-17 2017 (week 50 of 52) Career Side Hustle Ideas for Software Developers (via Erik Dietrich) Communication The Pyramid Principle (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture A WFH Retrospective (via The Software Mentor) What Elon Musk Taught Me…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 49
Dates covered: December 4-10, 2017 (week 49 of 52) Career Not Everyone Is a Manager, and That’s OK (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Why I Don’t Pay to Speak (via The Software Mentor) The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (via…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 27-December 3, 2017 (week 48 of 52) Career Of Coders and Carpenters (via The Software Mentor) How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else (via Erik Dietrich) Getting Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly) IT Jobs in 2020: A Leader’s…
Summary: Waltzing with Bears – Managing Risk on Software Projects
One of the professional development training items on the books for FY17-18 at work was a book I’ve had on my to-read list for several years: Waltzing with Bears – Managing Risk on Software Projects by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister….
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 47
Dates covered: November 20-26, 2017 (week 47 of 52) Career How to Turn Around a Job You Want to Quit (via The Software Mentor) 2018’s Software Engineering Talent Shortage— It’s quality, not just quantity (via The Software Mentor) Collection of Random Comics…