BVA v6.0 Shipped v6.0.3 of our flagship application; projected deadline set by the team was met, and the shipping product contained more features than were initially in-scope Incorporated hundreds of unit tests; addressed all tests marked as inconclusive so that…
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Professional Development – 2014 – Week 49
Dates covered: December 1-7, 2014 (week 49 of 52) Career Growing Developers (via Cameron Presley) The Dominant Leader Fallacy (via Eric Dietrich) How to Be an Effective Leader Even if You’re Shy (via Lifehacker) Lessons Learned Growing a Startup From Zero…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 24-30, 2014 (week 48 of 52) Communication 27 Pre-Written Templates For Your Toughest Work Emails (via Lifehacker) Use One Lunch Hour to Network Instead of Your Usual Routine (via Lifehacker) Culture Why Programmers Work at Night (from Shawn Wildermuth…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 47
Dates covered: November 17-23, 2014 (week 47 of 52) Culture Annihilating Complexity (via Eric Dietrich) The Power of Empathy (via Software Lead Weekly) The Value of Transparency (via Software Lead Weekly) How to Create a Great Intern Culture (via Software Lead Weekly) The…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 46
Dates covered: November 10-16, 2014 (week 46 of 52) Career Developer to Architect No, you are not ‘running late’, you are rude and selfish (via Cameron Presley) Beyond Event Hopping: How to Step Up Your Professional Networking (via Lifehacker) How to Respond…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 45
Dates covered: November 3-9, 2014 (week 45 of 52) Career Move Before You’re Ready: Get Started Without Being an “Expert” (via Lifehacker) Help, My Boss Sucks! (via Eric Dietrich) Culture Why I am leaving the best job I ever had (via…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 44
Dates covered: October 27 – November 2, 2014 (week 44 of 52) Career Career planning: Disaster recovery (via The Morning Brew) Career planning: Mine (via The Morning Brew) Culture You Are Not A Machine. You Are Not Alone. (via Smashing Magazine) The Couch…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 20-26, 2014 (week 43 of 52) Culture Your Community Door (via Jeff Atwood) What If We Could Weaponize Empathy? (via Jeff Atwood) The Evil “Tests” Job Interviewers Can Give (and How to Avoid Them) (via Lifehacker) Process, and Culture (via…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 42
Dates covered: October 13-19, 2014 (week 42 of 52) Communication Always Bet on Text (via Jeff Awtood) Culture The Humanized Expert Beginner (via Eric Dietrich) The Old Guard (via Michael Lopp) The Code Warriors (via Eric Dietrich) Getting Drunk off Our Own Kegerators…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 41
Dates covered: October 6-12, 2014 (week 41 of 52) Culture Why Nerd Culture Must Die (via Christine Jones) Trouble at the Koolaid Point (via Aly Fluckey, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Jen Myers, and Sean Mize) Successfully leading engineering teams (via Rich Rogers) Professionals…