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Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors

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Thoughts on software development and software management. Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors. Becoming an engineering manager is a paradigm shift that many struggle with at first. I think that one of the psychological difficulties for new engineering managers, and certainly one that I was having, is that of perceived productivity. To a developer, managing people can feel mind-numbingly unproductive because you seemingly cannot get anything done . Like I said, all these problems kill your team’s produc...

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Recognizing a Training Dead End

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Thoughts on software development and software management. Recognizing a Training Dead End. Do you remember Math in school? If you were good at it: Did you help others when they were struggling? Did you always succeed? Ok, so the equation is. X / (X - 5) = 2. Now, you can multiply by (X - 5) to get rid of the fraction. So I always multiply by the denominator? Wellyes, in these cases, when there is no further summation taking place. I modified the above equation slightly by adding 1 on each side:. However,...

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A large scale java script re learning initiative · trivago techblog

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A Large-Scale JavaScript Re-Learning Initiative. Share this post on. Or: What is this Espresso thing, and why is everybody doing jigsaw puzzles? Because our main application. Was getting ever more memory-hungry, our awesome JavaScript architecture team developed a modern, freakishly efficient component and rendering framework which we will open source and highlight in a series of future articles. In order to prove the framework’s maturity, we wanted to roll it out to the trivago core application. However...

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Giving Feedback Without Much Context

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Thoughts on software development and software management. Giving Feedback Without Much Context. Situation: I noticed that one team had almost no discussions around their code changes before they were merged. Other teams did. They would make suggestions for improvement, point out flaws, and sometimes do several rounds of commenting and re-committing before code was actually merged. This was the point of code reviews, after all. How he handles these situations:. Now, your concern might be entirely unground...

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Thoughts on software development and software management. Recalibrate Your Productivity Sensors. Becoming an engineering manager is a paradigm shift that many struggle with at first. I think that one of the psychological difficulties for new engineering managers, and certainly one that I was having, is that of perceived productivity. To a developer, managing people can feel mind-numbingly unproductive because you seemingly cannot get anything done . […]. One-on-Ones: Beyond Status Update. Without feedbac...

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Are You Too Busy?

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Thoughts on software development and software management. Are You Too Busy? Efficient vs. effective. This is the first in a series of three posts illustrating some core insights from Slack. By Tom DeMarco. The second post is on the white space in the org chart. And the last post is on facilitating substantial change. Question to you if you are a manager of some sorts: Do you have a secretary? Who do you think you are? For the next conference, formatting documents, doing online research, and all kinds of ...

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Thoughts on software development and software management. Growable vs. fixed. Efficient vs. effective. Spreading People Management Skills. Catalysts and Psychological Safety. Giving Feedback Without Much Context. A Tale of Dragons and Facilitation. A Primer on Delegation. Three Things Your Children Can Teach You About Management. Ownership or Why Don't You Come Visit Me? Watch Your Words: Feedback Analysis. One-on-Ones: Beyond Status Update. Feedback: Open or Anonymous? Taking Notes During 1:1s. How Goog...

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What is Your Territory?

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Thoughts on software development and software management. What is Your Territory? One of the most interesting things I took away from The War of Art. By Steven Pressfield is the distinction between. Pressfield introduces the concepts as follows:. So, hierarchical thinking is bad for artists. Why? Because hierarchy is about what others think of you. You wear certain clothes, drink a certain brand of beer, and say certain things, all with the intention of pleasing others, so that they think more highly...

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A Competition of Goals?

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Thoughts on software development and software management. A Competition of Goals? Earlier this year, I was told about a discussion among higher-ups at a tech company. There had been a survey among all employees, and the result was that many of them were dissatisfied with the lack of perspective they saw in terms of personal advancement and development. There were no career tracks, nor were there personal development plans of any sort. The rocket ship legend. And, when Sandberg left Google in 2008, the nu...