Bookmarks tagged “career”
165 bookmarks tagged “career”
The Curse of Knowledge - Ness Labs
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.
Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net
overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues | Brightball
Their creator has disavowed them. The measure and definition is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable timelines, are easily gamed, demotivate and degrade the performance of your team.
The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Stack Overflow
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you - Stack O
Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi
Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community.
Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James
Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create.
Contributing to Tech Communities: How Open-Source can land you a job and ge
Hello there! TL;DR In this article, we’re going to see how open-source can...
How a year-long LeetCode habit upped my professional game—Martian Chronicle
Are algorithmic tasks like those on LeetCode useful for a developer beyond live-coding interview tasks? After spending a year developing a LeetCode habit, Nina Torgunakova answers the question and gives tips.
Junior to senior: An action plan for engineering career success · GitHub
A guide providing actionable tips on how to transition from a junior to senior software engineer. Learn the essential technical competencies and communication skills needed to succeed, including th...
How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing - Stack Over
The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements - St
How to use marketing techniques to build a better resume - Stack Overflow B
Are meetings making you less productive? - Stack Overflow Blog
The delusion of Healthy Tensions
Every organisation I’ve ever worked with has suffered from ‘healthy tensions’ between roles turned nasty in one form or another. I’ve seen them lead to interpersonal conflict, team dysfunction, silos and productivity grinding to a halt. In general - bad outcomes all round....
Balancing Autonomy and Alignment with Accountability | by Richard Lennox |
Autonomous teams that are highly Aligned to purpose, are also explicitly Accountable. By having concrete mechanisms maximising Transparency and improving Commitments you can drive accountabilty.
Hard to work with. | Irrational Exuberance
Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any comp
Who builds it and who runs it? SRE team topologies - Stack Overflow Blog
Tech Layoffs: A Forgotten Deja Vu | by Amit Phansalkar | Jan, 2023 | Medium
The big-tech layoffs, coming one after another, have caught the media by storm. Some of the biggest names, like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon have joined the “layoff” bandwagon on the heels of Twitter…
I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever H
In retrospect the fact we were all day trading tech stocks from Stanford’s computer labs probably suggested it was a bit of a bubble, although eToys options did pay for two consecutive Spring Break…