My company is currently working toward achieving CMMI Dev Maturity Level 3. An area the technical solutions working group is exploring is how to formally integrate code reviews into our software development workflows. This post serves as a collection of…
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Professional Development – 2017 – Week 29
Dates covered: July 17-23, 2017 (week 29 of 52) Career What To Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore (via Harvard Business Review Audible Channel) Culture On Being the Employee Who “Needs Improvement” (via The Software Mentor) It’s Time to Make…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 28
Dates covered: July 10-16, 2017 (week 28 of 52) Career How to Know When It’s Time to Quit a Job You Like (via Lifehacker) Why expert developers make the worst tech leads (via Rich Rogers) Reducing hours by focusing your job (via Software…
Survey of BDD and TDD
These notes came from some professional development training (June 2017) on behavior-driven design (BDD) and test-driven design (TDD). They focus more so on BDD, as TDD is more of a well-understood technique. The premise for both techniques is that the…
Summary: Management Strategies that Will Increase Productivity Today
One of the professional development training items on the books for FY17-18 at work was a Pluralsight course I’ve had on my to-watch list for several years: Management Strategies that Will Increase Productivity Today by Jay Mcfarland. This post gives a…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 27
Dates covered: July 3-9, 2017 (week 27 of 52) Communication Speaker Tip: Warm Up Your Audience With Conversation (via The Software Mentor) Patterns of Effective Teams [~1 hour video] How to Write Documentation for People that Don’t Read [~30 min video]…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 26
Dates covered: June 26-July 2, 2017 (week 26 of 52) Communication Getting Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less (via Software Lead Weekly) From HR to People Ops: When and Why To Start a People Team (via…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 19-25, 2017 (week 25 of 52) Communication A Public Speaking Experiment: Blank Slides (via The Software Mentor) Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns (via The Software Mentor) Culture Catfish Developers (via The Software Mentor) On Failure and Resilience (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 24
Dates covered: June 12-18, 2017 (week 24 of 52) Culture Creating a Makers Culture from the Get Go (via Software Lead Weekly) The Utopia of a Developer (via Software Lead Weekly) Keep Interviewing and Nobody Explodes (via Software Lead Weekly) Are the Super-Rich Really…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 5-11, 2017 (week 23 of 52) Culture Humanizing the Enterprise (via UX Matters) Process Getting Things Done, 10 Years In (via Lifehacker) Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule (via Software Lead Weekly) Productivity How to…