Dates covered: April 9-15, 2018 (week 15 of 52) Business The Elements of B2B Value (via Harvard Business Review) Career How Patreon Levels Engineers (via Software Lead Weekly) Four Things I Wish I Knew When I Became a Tech Lead (via…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 14
Dates covered: April 2-8, 2018 (week 14 of 52) Career Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help (via Harvard Business Review) How to Be a Good Board Chair (via Harvard Business Review) What does a VP of…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 13
Dates covered: March 26-April 1, 2018 (week 13 of 52) Career A journey from Junior Developer to Technical Lead (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Write Useful Mission Statements in 3 Easy Steps (via Software Lead Weekly) Design 100 Things Every Designer Needs…
Summary: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
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: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan Weinschenk, PhD. This post…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 12
Dates covered: March 19-25, 2018 (week 12 of 52) Career When is a senior engineer not a senior engineer? (via The Software Mentor) How to make one of the most difficult decisions as a manager: Leaving your company (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 11
Dates covered: March 12-18, 2018 (week 11 of 52) Career It’s perfectly fine to only code at work, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. (via The Software Mentor) Communication How to Run Inclusive Meetings (via The Software Mentor) Prattfalls: Better Communication…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 10
Dates covered: March 5-11, 2018 (week 10 of 52) Communication .NET Rocks! 1526: Building Dashboards with Jessica White (via .NET Rocks!) Culture Why I Collapsed on the Job (via The Software Mentor) Learned Helplessness in Software Engineering (via Software Lead Weekly) Top…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 26-March 4, 2018 (week 9 of 52) Career Always Be Leaving (via The Software Mentor) Should I Quit My Job? Take This Quiz to–Just Kidding (via The Software Mentor) The hard thing about hard things: When a manager…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 8
Dates covered: February 19-25, 2018 (week 8 of 52) Career Advice to the newish programmer (via The Software Mentor) Learning to program is getting harder (via The Software Mentor) Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience. (via TED) Letting…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 12-18, 2018 (week 7 of 52) Communication Your Abstract Sucks (via The Software Mentor) Culture HR has lost the trust of employees. Here is who has it now (via The Software Mentor) The Surprising Ingredient that Makes Businesses…