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…
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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 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…
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…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 27-December 3, 2017 (week 48 of 52) Career Of Coders and Carpenters (via The Software Mentor) How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else (via Erik Dietrich) Getting Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly) IT Jobs in 2020: A Leader’s…
Summary: Waltzing with Bears – Managing Risk on Software Projects
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: Waltzing with Bears – Managing Risk on Software Projects by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister….
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 47
Dates covered: November 20-26, 2017 (week 47 of 52) Career How to Turn Around a Job You Want to Quit (via The Software Mentor) 2018’s Software Engineering Talent Shortage— It’s quality, not just quantity (via The Software Mentor) Collection of Random Comics…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 45
Dates covered: November 6-12, 2017 (week 45 of 52) Communication What nobody tells you about documentation (via The Software Mentor) On Writing Tech Specs (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture When we only hire the best means we only hire the…