Dates covered: February 23-March 1, 2015 (week 9 of 52)
Career
- How to Have a Better Career in Software (via Pluralsight Blog, recommended by Cameron Presley)
- Team of Teams: The Big SCRUM Series (via David Starr)
- Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (via Jeff Atwood)
- 10x Developer, Reconsidered (via Eric Dietrich)
- Dealing with Net Negative Producing Programmers (via Eric Dietrich)
- Never judge a programmer by their commit history (via Mehdi Khalili)
- Identifying and avoiding the cargo cult (via 8th Light Blog)
- Making the Business Case for Best Practices (via Eric Dietrich)
- Don’t Start with Automation (via Jim Holmes)
- Your Job is Not to Write Code (via Software Lead Weekly)
Culture
- Trouble with DevOps? Try TrekOps. (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Lessons Learned from Scaling a Product Team (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How Successful Remote Teams Evaluate Employees (via Software Lead Weekly)
Economics
Management
- How to Get the Best People to Join Your Team (via Pluralsight Blog)
- A Few Traits of Successful Managers (via Software Lead Weekly)
Motivation
- Talent Does Not Decide Whether You Succeed (via Lifehacker)
- Don’t Use Preparation As An Excuse to Procrastinate Change (via Lifehacker)
- Find the Hurdles in a Project Before Procrastinating (via Lifehacker)
Productivity
- Avoid Over-Committing Your Time with This Simple Formula (via Lifehacker)
- Take This Productivity Style Quiz to Find Out How You Work Best (via Lifehacker)
- Productivity 101: How to Use Personal Kanban to Visualize Your Work (via Lifehacker)
Psychology
- The Retreat of the Introvert (via Eric Dietrich)
- Why a “Bolstering Range Offer” Might Be Your Best Bet When Negotiating (via Lifehacker)
- Don’t Let “Normalization” Cause Simple Mistakes on Your Next Project (via Lifehacker)
- Why Thinking Too Long-Term Can Sabotage Your Success (via Lifehacker)
Software
- .NET Rocks! 1104: Azure Update with Michele Leroux Bustamante (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1105: Mobile Testing on Xamarin with James Montemagno (via .NET Rocks!)
Software development
- Tools of the Trade – Getting Started With Continuous Integration (Part 1) (via Cameron Presley)
- Iteration Management – Post#4 – Managing the Iteration (via Jon Kruger)
- The Cumulative Effect of Inefficient Workflows (via 8th Light Blog)
- Harmul GOTOs, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths Are the Root of All Evil (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Technical Debt: Adding Math to the Metaphor (via Software Lead Weekly)