Contents tagged with management
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A couple of links on recruitment
I've been a bit quiet over the past month due to starting a new role which has kept me thoroughly occupied with the usual "information brain-splosion". One of the things I'm going to have to do now I' …
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The dreaded coding / technical test
I've given, and taken, different flavours of coding/technical "test" which seem to fall into three main buckets
Write some code on a computer
Write some code on a whiteboard
Talk through a …
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It's perfectly okay to say "I don't know, let's research this together."
This tweet:
As a senior engineer or a technical team lead, it's perfectly okay to say "I don't know, let's research this together."
— Celestine Omin (@cyberomin) October 3, 2017
Along with …
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Who you know, versus what you know
I've recently been reflecting on the past, no bad thing as there's a lot that can be learnt from looking back to what's gone before, after all there's that oft mis-quoted aphorism attributed to …
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Documentation - the oft neglected step-child of a project
I've recently started contributing to the documentation for the Orchard CMS project (GitHub: https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardDoc), my reasons for this are many:
I've been using Orchard as the …
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Developers, Developers, Developers ;)
[Via: The JobSyntax Blog]
I came across an interesting blog entry (linked below) that discuss how to keep software developers / engineers (pick your preferred terminology) happy. …
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Development Abstraction Layer
The Development Abstraction Layer - Joel on Software
This really made me smile, particularly the quote "Management's primary responsibility to create the illusion that a software …
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Hiring for Potential
Heather Leigh of Microsoft has an interesting few words to say regarding hiring for potential. Well, most of the article isn't directly about hiring for potential, but it's the bit that caught my eye. …
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Do it, Delegate it or Dump it
Sure I've waffled about this before, but there's an article on StickyMinds.com titled "Win-Win Delegation" in which the most important (to my mind) point is "Delegate Authority with the Task". There' …
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Done, done and done!
[StickyMinds.com] Done and DONE-done - The Magic of Completion Criteria
Another great article from stickminds, which shows the importance of defining requirements, in this instance …