Dates covered: March 27-April 2, 2017 (week 13 of 52) Career Programmer Competency Matrix (via The Software Mentor) Communication Running a Manager Feedback Cycle (via Software Lead Weekly) Process The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards (via James…
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Professional Development – 2017 – Week 12
Dates covered: March 20-26, 2017 (week 12 of 52) Culture State of Software Development at Startups in 2017 (via Tamas Torok) Lessons from 7 highly successful software engineering cultures (via Software Lead Weekly) Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results – 2017 (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Trip Report: Management and Leadership Skills for First-time Supervisors and Managers
In January 2017, I was promoted to Team Leader. This move is a more formal management position, as I now have three people I supervise. To help in this transition, it was suggested that I enroll in some introductory management/leadership…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 10
Dates covered: March 6-12, 2017 (week 10 of 52) Culture The 4-letter-word word that makes my blood boil. (via Software Lead Weekly) Against The Whiteboard (via Software Lead Weekly) Getting Human Resources Right (via Software Lead Weekly) Management Management & Leadership Skills for…
An Opinion from a GitHub Outsider
I recently read a post a friend shared entitled The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now…, and it irritated me a bit. Twitter wasn’t the right medium, so I figured a blog post was warranted. Here’s…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 8
Dates covered: February 20-26, 2017 (week 8 of 52) Career What does a Director of Engineering do? (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Your Culture is Rotting (via Rands In Repose) A Critical Chain of Bus Factors (via Roy Osherove) Reflecting On One Very,…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 13-19, 2017 (week 7 of 52) Career The Not-So-Passionate Programmer: finding a job when you’re just a normal person (via The Software Mentor) Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion (via The Software Mentor) Don’t Pursue Programming if…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 6-12, 2017 (week 6 of 52) Career The Disease of More (via Mark Manson) The 10 Commandments of Good Thinking (via Software Lead Weekly) Senior Engineers Reduce Risk (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture GitLab’s Secret to Managing 160 Employees…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 5
Dates covered: January 30-February 5, 2017 (week 5 of 52) Career Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews… or how what you do after graduation matters way more than where you went to school (via The Software Mentor) The New Grad Rotation Program:…
Professional Year in Review (2016)
DPRA, Inc. JFAST Implemented multiple features and fixed several bugs for Release 7 of JFAST, a system that allows military planners to perform transportation and logistics feasibility analyses for selecting the best course of action Became a team lead; this involved taking more…