Dates covered: March 6-12, 2017 (week 10 of 52) Culture The 4-letter-word word that makes my blood boil. (via Software Lead Weekly) Against The Whiteboard (via Software Lead Weekly) Getting Human Resources Right (via Software Lead Weekly) Management Management & Leadership Skills for…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 27-March 5, 2017 (week 9 of 52) Career The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now… (via The Software Mentor) Reading Comprehension Strategies (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Your Software Just Isn’t Mission Critical (via The Software…
An Opinion from a GitHub Outsider
I recently read a post a friend shared entitled The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now…, and it irritated me a bit. Twitter wasn’t the right medium, so I figured a blog post was warranted. Here’s…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 8
Dates covered: February 20-26, 2017 (week 8 of 52) Career What does a Director of Engineering do? (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Your Culture is Rotting (via Rands In Repose) A Critical Chain of Bus Factors (via Roy Osherove) Reflecting On One Very,…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 13-19, 2017 (week 7 of 52) Career The Not-So-Passionate Programmer: finding a job when you’re just a normal person (via The Software Mentor) Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion (via The Software Mentor) Don’t Pursue Programming if…
RPM 73 Review
Here’s my quarterly RPM review post giving some details and thoughts about the 2017 Q1 release, RPM 73. 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 – 2017 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 6-12, 2017 (week 6 of 52) Career The Disease of More (via Mark Manson) The 10 Commandments of Good Thinking (via Software Lead Weekly) Senior Engineers Reduce Risk (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture GitLab’s Secret to Managing 160 Employees…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 5
Dates covered: January 30-February 5, 2017 (week 5 of 52) Career Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews… or how what you do after graduation matters way more than where you went to school (via The Software Mentor) The New Grad Rotation Program:…
Professional Year in Review (2016)
DPRA, Inc. JFAST Implemented multiple features and fixed several bugs for Release 7 of JFAST, a system that allows military planners to perform transportation and logistics feasibility analyses for selecting the best course of action Became a team lead; this involved taking more…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 23-29, 2017 (week 4 of 52) Career Superhuman Developers, Decision Fatigue and Procrastination (via The Software Mentor) Bad Advice I Have Received (via The Software Mentor) Finding Your Way from Maker to Manager (via Software Lead Weekly) A better way…