Dates covered: January 15-21, 2018 (week 3 of 52) Career When Is It Time to Leave? (via The Software Mentor) No, I Have No Side Hustles to Show You (via Erik Dietrich) What Does a CEO Actually Do? (via Freakonomics Radio)…
RPM 77 Review
Here’s my quarterly RPM review post giving some details and thoughts about the 2018 Q1 release, RPM 77. I’ll start with my general thoughts for the release, and if you’re interested in a track-by-track breakdown, keep on reading. General Thoughts…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 2
Dates covered: January 8-14, 2018 (week 2 of 52) Career What’s the Difference between Entry-level and Junior-level and Senior-level Developers? (via The Software Mentor) Knowledge in software development: what’s your wood lot? (via The Software Mentor) .NET Rocks! 1510: Finding a…
Behavioral Interview Template
In this post, I share my current template for interviewing other software developers. If you ask N people how best to interview, you’ll likely get N unique answers. What I did was combine suggested interview strategies and questions from several sources I’ve encountered over…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 1
Dates covered: January 1-7, 2018 (week 1 of 52) Career Interview questions for executive, PMs or other leadership candidates. (via Software Lead Weekly) Should engineering managers write code? Wrong question. (via Software Lead Weekly) Process The #NoEstimates debate: An unbiased look at…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 52
Dates covered: December 25-31, 2017 (week 52 of 52) Career Hard and Soft Skills in Tech (via Software Lead Weekly) The delicate balance between coding and managing (via Software Lead Weekly) .NET Rocks! 1506: Laudato Si Challenge with Stephen Forte (via .NET…
Professional Year in Review (2017)
DPRA, Inc. Team leader Was promoted to team leader (mid-January); this involved aiding in release planning, assignment of work, knowledge acquisition from subject matter experts, sharing information with the development team, improving inter-department communication through shared documentation, and establishing/maintaining best…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 51
Dates covered: December 18-24, 2017 (week 51 of 52) Career My Most Challenging Experience as a Software Developer (via The Software Mentor) Care and Feeding of Burnout (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Learning to embrace conflict as a part of…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 50
Dates covered: December 11-17 2017 (week 50 of 52) Career Side Hustle Ideas for Software Developers (via Erik Dietrich) Communication The Pyramid Principle (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture A WFH Retrospective (via The Software Mentor) What Elon Musk Taught Me…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 49
Dates covered: December 4-10, 2017 (week 49 of 52) Career Not Everyone Is a Manager, and That’s OK (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Why I Don’t Pay to Speak (via The Software Mentor) The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (via…