Dates covered: November 21-27, 2016 (week 47 of 52) Career On Being Surpassed Gracefully (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture The code I’m still ashamed of (via The Software Mentor) Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication How I Share Information…
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Ending the TL;DL Experiment
For the last month (since October 26, 2016), I’ve been running an experiment to see if the following project would have any impact: I listen to .NET Rocks! to keep up with what’s going on with .NET development. The episodes…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 46
Dates covered: November 14-20, 2016 (week 46 of 52) Career Low Risk vs. High Risk (via The Software Mentor) 6 Tips for New Engineering Managers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication 5 ways to hone your production incident postmortems (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 45
Dates covered: November 7-13, 2016 (week 45 of 52) Career Programming Is Boring (via The Software Mentor) Programmer Personality Test (via Cameron Presley) Communication Gossip, Rumors, and Lies (via Michael Lopp) Why You Should Argue with Your Employees (via The Software Mentor) On…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 44
Dates covered: October 31-November 6, 2016 (week 44 of 52) Career Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Focus – my keynote at AgileByExample, Warsaw (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Status Meetings Are the Scourge (via Signal…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 24-30, 2016 (week 43 of 52) Career Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or a Specialists? (via The Software Mentor) How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Using Harsh Feedback…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 42
Dates covered: October 17-23, 2016 (week 42 of 52) Communication We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers (via TED) Culture The myth of low-hanging fruit: Be careful when you use the word “easy” to describe other people’s jobs. (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Freakonomics Radio Episode: “In Praise of Maintenance”
In this post, I’d like to share some highlights (and some of my own comments) about an episode of Freakonomics Radio titled In Praise of Maintenance (published October 20, 2016). Personally I was delighted by the episode’s topic, given that several of the…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 41
Dates covered: October 10-16, 2016 (week 41 of 52) Career 7 Years of Blogging, and a Lifetime Later… (via The Software Mentor) Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Education through automation: Slack Concierge (via Software Lead Weekly) Community .NET…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 40
Dates covered: October 3-9, 2016 (week 40 of 52) Career Reflections of an Old Programmer (via Alan Barber) Culture I Have 21 Radical Ideas (via The Software Mentor) 25 Tips for Diverse Hiring (via Software Lead Weekly) Team and Strategy (via Software Lead Weekly) Management A…