Dates covered: March 14-20, 2016 (week 11 of 52) Career The Trouble with Career Sites (via Erik Dietrich) Spend Time with A+ People in Other Industries (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Firing People (via Software Lead Weekly) Management How Criticizing in Private Undermines…
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Professional Development – 2016 – Week 10
Dates covered: March 7-13, 2016 (week 10 of 52) Career Chasing Developer Productivity Metrics (via Erik Dietrich) Communication Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails, except by accident (via The Software Lead Weekly) Hitting the Right Level of Abstraction (via The Software Lead Weekly) Culture…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 29-March 6, 2016 (week 9 of 52) Career Developing Yourself: Handling Family, a Professional Life and Staying Sane (via Steve Smith) Culture Programming Is a Pop Culture (via The Software Mentor) Motivation You Don’t Have a Procrastination Problem, You…
Professional Year in Review (2015)
DAXOR Corporation Multichannel analyzer end-of-life project Created a project plan for implementing support for another vendor’s multi-channel analyzer; the plan listed business considerations (costs/benefits), known system components, and five objectives to accomplish the work (each with rationale, purpose, and deliverables)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 8
Dates covered: February 22-28, 2016 (week 8 of 52) Career Escaping the Legacy Skill Quicksand (via Erik Dietrich) The Value of Proving Yourself (via Lifehacker) How to Level up as a Developer (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture On Coders and Programmers (via The Software…
Notes on .NET Rocks! 1262 on Agile
This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1262) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Matthew Renze about the economics, psychology, and science of Agile. See also, my…
Notes on .NET Rocks! 1260 on Agile Change
This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1260) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Chris McDermott. Context It’s been three months since I’ve started a new…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 15-21, 2016 (week 7 of 52) Culture GitHub Activity Guilt and the Coder’s FitBit (via The Software Mentor) Get Off of GitHub (via The Software Mentor) Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 8-14, 2016 (week 6 of 52) Career You Weren’t Born to Just Write Code and Die (via The Software Mentor) Coding as a Career Isn’t Right for Me (via The Software Mentor) Creating a Career Path (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 5
Dates covered: February 1-7, 2016 (week 5 of 52) Career We’re Not Beasts, So Let’s Not Act Like It (via Erik Dietrich) Is Unlimited PTO a Good Deal for Me? (via Erik Dietrich) Communication Shorter Feedback is Not Always Bett (via Software Lead…