Dates covered: July 24-30, 2017 (week 30 of 52) Business The Only Metric that Matters (via Software Lead Weekly) Career Rethinking the Developer Career Path (~25 min video) (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Open Source: because I got mine, so fuck…
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Professional Development – 2017 – Week 29
Dates covered: July 17-23, 2017 (week 29 of 52) Career What To Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore (via Harvard Business Review Audible Channel) Culture On Being the Employee Who “Needs Improvement” (via The Software Mentor) It’s Time to Make…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 28
Dates covered: July 10-16, 2017 (week 28 of 52) Career How to Know When It’s Time to Quit a Job You Like (via Lifehacker) Why expert developers make the worst tech leads (via Rich Rogers) Reducing hours by focusing your job (via Software…
Summary: Management Strategies that Will Increase Productivity Today
One of the professional development training items on the books for FY17-18 at work was a Pluralsight course I’ve had on my to-watch list for several years: Management Strategies that Will Increase Productivity Today by Jay Mcfarland. This post gives a…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 27
Dates covered: July 3-9, 2017 (week 27 of 52) Communication Speaker Tip: Warm Up Your Audience With Conversation (via The Software Mentor) Patterns of Effective Teams [~1 hour video] How to Write Documentation for People that Don’t Read [~30 min video]…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 19-25, 2017 (week 25 of 52) Communication A Public Speaking Experiment: Blank Slides (via The Software Mentor) Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns (via The Software Mentor) Culture Catfish Developers (via The Software Mentor) On Failure and Resilience (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 24
Dates covered: June 12-18, 2017 (week 24 of 52) Culture Creating a Makers Culture from the Get Go (via Software Lead Weekly) The Utopia of a Developer (via Software Lead Weekly) Keep Interviewing and Nobody Explodes (via Software Lead Weekly) Are the Super-Rich Really…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 5-11, 2017 (week 23 of 52) Culture Humanizing the Enterprise (via UX Matters) Process Getting Things Done, 10 Years In (via Lifehacker) Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule (via Software Lead Weekly) Productivity How to…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 22
Dates covered: May 29-June 4, 2017 (week 22 of 52) Career The Engineer/Manager Pendulum (via Software Lead Weekly) A Framework for Learning for Programmers (via Software Lead Weekly) Recovering from a Toxic Job (via Alan Barber) .NET Rocks! 1446: Banish your Inner Critic with…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 21
Dates covered: May 22-28, 2017 (week 21 of 52) Career Doing the Wrong Thing (via The Software Mentor) .NET Rocks! 1444: Ditching the Hourly Crusade with Jonathan Stark (via .NET Rocks!) Culture Quit Measuring Employee Engagement (via Signal v. Noise) Management The Biggest Mistake…