Dates covered: August 28-September 3, 2017 (week 35 of 52) Career Just a Developer (via The Software Mentor) Be a good mentor, not a dickhead (via The Software Mentor) 8 habits to become a better software engineer (via The Software Mentor) Culture That’s…
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Professional Development – 2017 – Week 34
Dates covered: August 21-27, 2017 (week 34 of 52) Career Learning at Work (via Software Lead Weekly) The best career advice I’ve received (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication The 90% Agreement Rule (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture This Is Why Your Best…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 33
Dates covered: August 14-20, 2017 (week 33 of 52) Career The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (via Cory House) Feelings of Failure (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture The Money Maximization Distraction (via The Software Mentor) Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 32
Dates covered: August 7-13, 2017 (week 32 of 52) Career Knowledge Breadth vs. Knowledge Depth (via The Software Mentor) We are All Product Owners! An Impact Guide for Engineers (via Software Lead Weekly) Ten Principles for Growth as an Engineer (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 30
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…
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…