Dates covered: February 5-11, 2018 (week 6 of 52) Career How to Turn a Job Opening into a Dream Job for Top Tech Talent (via The Software Mentor) Progressing from Tech to Leadership (via Software Lead Weekly) Finding Fulfilling Work…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 5
Dates covered: January 29-February 4, 2018 (week 5 of 52) Career Letter to a Junior Engineer (via The Software Mentor) “I Wasn’t Stupid Enough to Say This Could Be Done Overnight” (via Freakonomics Radio) Culture How to Turn Your Hellhole…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 22-28, 2018 (week 4 of 52) Career Your recruiter is not your friend (via The Software Mentor) How to Become a CEO (via Freakonomics Radio) Career Structure. It Doesn’t Matter. Until It Matters. (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture…
Professional Development – 2018 – Week 3
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…