Dates covered: December 12-18, 2016 (week 50 of 52) Career The Journeyman Idealist: Architect of Programmer Paycuts (via Erik Dietrich) Journeyman Idealists Inside of Companies (via Erik Dietrich) Culture The Outwork Myth (via Software Lead Weekly) Process Annual Reviews Are Stupid (via Dawn Kuczwara)…
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Professional Development – 2016 – Week 49
Dates covered: December 5-11, 2016 (week 49 of 52) Career Finding a Tech Leadership Job in Silicon Alley: 78 days, 43 Interviews, 18 companies, 1 job (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture .NET Rocks! 1385: Imposter Syndrome with Rob Conery (via .NET Rocks!) Coconut…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 28-December 4, 2016 (week 48 of 52) Career I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. (via The Software Mentor) Code, Code, Code (via The Software Mentor) I Don’t Belong in Tech (via…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 47
Dates covered: November 21-27, 2016 (week 47 of 52) Career On Being Surpassed Gracefully (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture The code I’m still ashamed of (via The Software Mentor) Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication How I Share Information…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 46
Dates covered: November 14-20, 2016 (week 46 of 52) Career Low Risk vs. High Risk (via The Software Mentor) 6 Tips for New Engineering Managers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication 5 ways to hone your production incident postmortems (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 45
Dates covered: November 7-13, 2016 (week 45 of 52) Career Programming Is Boring (via The Software Mentor) Programmer Personality Test (via Cameron Presley) Communication Gossip, Rumors, and Lies (via Michael Lopp) Why You Should Argue with Your Employees (via The Software Mentor) On…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 44
Dates covered: October 31-November 6, 2016 (week 44 of 52) Career Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Focus – my keynote at AgileByExample, Warsaw (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Status Meetings Are the Scourge (via Signal…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 24-30, 2016 (week 43 of 52) Career Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or a Specialists? (via The Software Mentor) How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Using Harsh Feedback…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 42
Dates covered: October 17-23, 2016 (week 42 of 52) Communication We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers (via TED) Culture The myth of low-hanging fruit: Be careful when you use the word “easy” to describe other people’s jobs. (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 41
Dates covered: October 10-16, 2016 (week 41 of 52) Career 7 Years of Blogging, and a Lifetime Later… (via The Software Mentor) Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Education through automation: Slack Concierge (via Software Lead Weekly) Community .NET…