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How to implement the 5 Whys technique to get to the root cause of your productivity issues
Your goal is to find the root of your productivity issues. Rephrase the problem you've just defined as a "Why" question.
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on: 2021-12-06
Culture matters
Three major tools that companies have to influence behavior are incentives, process, and culture.
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on: 2021-11-09
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be… and then they were promoted.
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on: 2021-07-04
10 things I wish every design student knew | by Cameron Moll | Medium
This week I had the privilege of speaking to design students at two universities about my career. Here are some of the things I shared, most of which were answers to their questions. 1. The greatest output of your careers will be relationships.
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on: 2021-06-22
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Cami
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on: 2021-06-22
kuchin/awesome-cto
— Hello, my name is Dima and I'm a CTO — (chorus) Welcome, Dima A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
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on: 2021-02-27
Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager | CSS-Tricks
DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale.
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on: 2021-02-22
Why your team doesn't need to use pull requests
Github introduced the pull request practice, and features to support it, to make it easier for people who run open-source projects to accept contributions from outside their group of trusted committers. Committers are trusted to make changes to the codebase routinely.
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on: 2021-01-03
The Value-Effort Matrix: A framework for thinking about work
Your product owner comes to you with a request, and suddenly your stomach is tied in knots. There’s something about the request that doesn’t sit right. You blurt out, “well, that’s a lot of work,” because it’s the only thing that comes to mind.
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on: 2020-11-19
Making Distributed Organizations More Effective
An autonomous team model with teams organized around geographical or time-zone proximity can make a distributed organization more effective. With the Reverse Conway Maneuver you can deliberately add or remove bottlenecks to better support the designs you are trying to build.
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on: 2020-06-25
Lessons from building “N26 for Web” | Hugo Giraudel
In just about a month, that will be 3.5 years I am at N26. I was hired as the first web developer to rebuild the N26 web platform.
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on: 2020-02-03
Let’s talk about your resume | Hugo Giraudel
Folks, we need to talk about resumes. Over the last 3 years at N26, I have had to get quite involved in hiring. I virtually interviewed every single person who joined the web team, and have probably reviewed enough CVs for a life time.
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on: 2020-02-03
Making Distributed Working Work ◆ 24 ways
Four years ago, I started working at a small startup called Snyk that’s based in two locations – London and Tel Aviv.
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on: 2019-12-12
Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. Uber, however, had an official mentoring program.
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on: 2019-11-12
Modern applications at AWS - All Things Distributed
Innovation has always been part of the Amazon DNA, but about 20 years ago, we went through a radical transformation with the goal of making our iterative process—"invent, launch, reinvent, relaunch, start over, rinse, repeat, again and again"—even faster.
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on: 2019-08-29
Design Patterns for Managing Up
Have you ever been in a situation where you are presenting to your manager or your manager's manager and you completely flub the opportunity by saying all the wrong things? Me too. It is from such encounters that I started to put together design patterns for handling these difficult situations.
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on: 2019-01-26