rl_startup_career_process.md

Startups, Career and Process

• The Gravitational Force of Wage Labor
• Management for the masses?
• Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews.
• Confession… I Cheated During Planning Poker
• Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too
• Hiring the Ideal Startup Team
• I’m a boring programmer (and proud of it)
• Five Stages of BDD (and Agile) Adoption
• So Are You Saying We SHOULDN’T Learn to Code???
• Meeting Testing Standards in Fast-paced Environments
• The One Man Show vs. The Team Player Developer
• When the Dream Disappears From Your Dream Job
• 6 Ways to Modernize Product Development Process for B2B Disruption
• BusinessCapabilityCentric
• ActivityOriented
• The Challenges Of Boosting Team Performance
• How Do You Learn?
• 3 women who radically changed the course of technology
• Is Code Review Considered a Part of QA?
• The Curse of Culture
• Why Is Your Project Taking So Long?
• Mastering Skill as a Foundation for Creative Work
• 5 Questions to Get You on the Path to $10M in Annual Revenue
• How to Get a Raise
• Learning to like design documents
• The rise and fall of the Dungeon Master
• Estimate Theater
• Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement
• Evil tip: avoid “easy” things
• How we See Others Drives the Value of our Self-Perception
• How Much Code Do You Need to Collaborate These Days?
• The Key to Becoming a Better Developer: Read More
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 1
• How To Roll Out New Features Without Hurting Loyal Users
• Getting the Job: Developer Interview Types – The Self-Doubter
• Velocity is Not Acceleration
• 10 Ways Not to Do Change Management
• The Utility Theory and Agile Adoption
• Learning From Your Bugs
• Learning and Adapting Is Key to Agile Project Team Success
• How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team
• 3 Biggest Challenges Agile Shops Continue to Battle
• How to get hired at a startup when you don’t know anyone
• Deep Work: Optimizing your Time and Productivity
• To learn, you must ship your code
• Fighting the perfect product
• Managers, change and strategy
• Is An In-Depth Knowledge of a Business Domain Necessary for Testing Its Software?
• 4 Principles that Build a Metrics-Driven Company
• Tips for beginning systems and software engineers
• On asking job candidates to code
• Can Your Programming Skills Be Rated?
• The Third Time Often is the Charm
• The Reality of Missing Out
• How Good Ideas are Born, Get Done
• Value of Burndown and Burnup Charts
• Top developers can have a life outside coding
• The Immutability of Math and How Almost Everything Else Will Pass
• Hidden Costs in Your Software
• Technology Doesn’t Guarantee Success
• Great Teams, Great Products
• What Makes Hard Questions Worth Pursuing
• Why Software Innovation Is Not a Free Pass for Doing Whatever You Want
• When is Agile Wrong for You?
• Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• Enterprise Agility in a World of Unknowns
• We only hire the trendiest
• Kanban for Software Testing Teams
• How to Become a Conference Speaker
• Product Owner Manager – Alone Together
• Successful Sprint Retrospectives: Tips and Tools
• The Single Wringable Neck
• Did Programming Stop Being Fun? Let’s Fix It
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 3
• Three Reasons Agile Will Not Succeed
• Leaders and Managers in Startups
• How Expensive Is Your Outsourcing Team?
• The Top 8 Habits of Successful Developers
• Revisiting the Growth Mindset
• Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout
• Programmers are Humans, Too: How to Get Crusty Developers to Change
• Agile Economics: Supply and Demand
• How To Speed Your Team Up (By Slowing Them Down)
• Mastering Programming
• One trait that every successful person has
• How Much Time Do You Waste While Coding?
• Pattern of the Month: Done
• Managing Software Development Through Kanban and Trello
• Bimodal IT: Do It Right, or Don’t Do It at All
• 10 Leadership Qualities to Become a Successful Product Manager
• The Software Engineer’s Guide to Depreciating Your Resume
• The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made
• We did it wrong, but not all was in vain
• Improving your skills as a 9 to 5 programmer
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Remote Work (After 5 Years of Experience)
• 5 Reasons Dev Managers Need to Focus on Employee Training
• The staffing pyramid
• What Your Six-Page Resume Says About You (and Your “Elegant Code”)
• A Billion Here, a Billion There – the Real Cost of Bugs
• Read about the software you use
• My Biggest Regret As A Programmer
• Keep Yourself Entertained At Work With Extracurricular Projects
• Mob Programming – the Good, the Bad and the Great.
• Pitfalls of a Non-technical Manager
• Software Testing Estimation Techniques & Hacks Webinar Recap
• It’s Not A Factory
• The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development
• Being a ‘Dumb’ Girl in Computer Science
• Managing requires skills and intuition
• Discovery Projects Work for Agile Contracts
• RJMetrics just announced 25 layoffs in sales and sales support
• What Makes Testing in Agile Successful?
• Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 3
• Please Don’t Learn to Code Unless…
• How an Organizational Structure Affects Test Quality
• 10 Tips for Writing Good User Stories
• Dependencies management in a crisis
• The Sauce Journey – From Star to Scrum
• Code Reviews – What Really Matters?
• You Got Fired: Do’s and Don’ts
• Two topics best avoided in retrospectives
• Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue Yet
• Is Unlimited PTO a Good Deal for Me?
• How I Satisfied My Passion for Software Development and Open-Source by Doing a Part-Time PhD
• The Search For Predictability
• Negotiating an Offer That Meets Your Asking Price
• I’m Glad You Studied FizzBuzz, But What About the Guaranteed Questions?
• Mistakes Dev Managers Make
• Github and Code Review: A Quiet Revolution
• Illusory Superiority: Are You a Good Programmer?
• On Logging Hours
• Having Trouble Getting Started On Learning a New Skill?
• Lessons Learned Launching A Side Project in 48 Hours
• 20 Questions to Get Up to Speed as a Scrum Master
• Making the Most of Grad School for Programmers
• Give yourself permission to have work-life balance
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 5
• Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 1
• Do Employees Really Only Leave Bad Bosses?
• 5 Signs of Managed Platform Entropy
• Stressed? It’s Not the Industry, It’s Your Employer
• It’s Okay Not To Lead
• The Number One Tip to Help Junior Developers Become Senior Developers
• How Much is a Good Boss Worth?
• Three ways to solve hard programming problems
• Does Competition Help Innovation?
• Want to Really Learn? Teach!
• Lead, Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way
• Using Return On Team to Enhance Business Agility
• “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit
• Managers as information hubs
• Literate Programming and Team Development
• Boost Agile Testing by Cultivating a Shared Mental Model
• What is the next step when learning a new skill?
• Why I Left Management: the engineering technical track vs. management track
• When You Need All the Requirements
• Correlated in Retrospect
• The Layoff List
• Agile Trekking: Why Does it Look I am Walking Backwards?
• Lean Funding
• Finding good clients
• That’s a nice little $1-2M SaaS company you have here. Call me to discuss if it will scale!
• Priority (Story) Boarding
• Five Tips for Introducing Product Management to Your Company
• What Do Industry Insiders Think Will Happen in VC in 2016?
• Is Anxiety Hurting Your Performance?
• On Learning and Information
• Don’t think big!
• Updating your outdated knowledge by moving to a new web stack
• Gamify your learning goals
• How Agile Changes Testing, Part 1
• What Does Agile Mean to You?
• List of 5th Agile Values
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 4
• How Startup Weekend Made Me a Better Developer
• Vertical Slicing User Stories – Some Practical Ideas
• A Simpler Explanation for the Developer Shortage (If You Believe It)
• A Manager’s Guide to Legacy Code
• Disruption is not a strategy
• Leading Agile Change: Proven Change Models for Agile Transformation
• Playful learning: play while programming
• 3 Ways to Hustle Without Killing Yourself and Your Family
• Applied Consultant Taxonomy to Prevent Confusion
• Chasing Developer Productivity Metrics
• Growing Revenue May Kill Your Startup
• Are You Underpaid?
• Hiring is Broken… And It Isn’t Worth Fixing
• What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?
• Agile Economics: Scale And The City
• Hobbyist to Professional: The Indicator of Things to Come
• Solve Small Problems
• Why I turned down $500K, Pissed off my investors, and Shut down my startup
• Use Open Source to Hone Your Programming Skills
• How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means
• Carts without horses
• My personal burnout – Lessons learned
• Requirements in an Agile World
• Agile Adolescence: The Gawky Teenage Years
• A Taxonomy of Software Consultants
• Professional corner-cutting
• Bridging the Communication Gap Between Developers and Architects
• How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails
• What’s the Right Ratio Between QA Testers and Developers?
• 6 people you want to work with
• What is management work?
• Tell Your Problems to the Duck
• Managers who are not managers
• Building Products Without Coding
• 4 Skills Every Test Team Needs
• How to Describe Accomplishments on a Resume
• Please Stop “Geeking Out”
• The Value of Failure
• Bad Things I’ve Wanted To Say About Lean And Agile
• Stupid Recruiter Tricks V3: The Phantom Client and Recruiter Conflict
• How Not To Appear Like a Desperate Job Seeker
• A Brief Guide to the Philly Tech Scene
• Architects Don’t Decide
• Software has bugs. This is normal.
• Agile Economics: The Cost of Change
• Writing for Software Engineers
• Prerequisites for Effective Code Review
• API Documentation and the Communication Illusion
• Holacracy or Autocracy? Both!
• Practising Software Engineering
• The MBA Guide to Software Development
• s/automation/programming/
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 2
• Agile Economics: Delusions of Grandeur
• Tools For Distributed Agile Teams
• Gathering the Confidence to Leave Your Job
• Management work: Strategy and Planning?
• The Most Powerful Lesson I’ve Ever Learned In Business
• How Regular One-on-One Meetings Saved Our Company Culture
• How to Minimize Technical Debt and Reverse Grind
• Let’s talk about confidence
• Still Not Really Agile? What Pipeline Automation Can Do for You
• The Difference Between Power and Status
• Technical Leadership in Software Companies
• The curse of staying up to date with new technology
• My Passion Was My Weak Spot
• Why Aren’t You Writing Online?
• When You Have Concerns
• Characteristics of Good Agile Leadership
• Advice on Changing Jobs
• Systemic abuse in the software industry is ruining lives… and taking them. #HackerLivesMatter
• Personal APIs: Not a Local Destination, but a Journey
• Technical Certifications and My World’s Greatest Dad Mug
• Maintainable Code vs Common Code
• 8 Ways to Become a Better Coder
• Master Each Skill Before Moving On to the Next Shiny Thing
• Making the shift to behavior driven development
• Platforms always win
• The Third Wave of Agile
• Advice for managing software development?
• Try On The Decision For 30 Days
• 8 Steps For Effective User Stories
• Real Work
• The Trouble with Career Sites
• Budget: First Half, Second Half
• Tradeoffs in Coordination Among Teams
• The Resetting of the Startup Industry
• 3 Tips for building a Technical Vision
• The Art of Shipping Early and Often
• Diagnosing Agile Team Member Anti-Patterns
• What Are the Most Widely Used Project-Level Metrics
• The Art of Agile Estimation – My Way of Dealing With It
• How to Operate within the Tension Between Knowing and Learning
• Agile Economics: Early and Often
• You can’t remember every detail, so stop trying
• The corporate shitwork
• Non-Commissioned Managers
• The Downfalls of Poor Knowledge Management
• Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
• Why Engineers Despise Agile
• OutcomeOriented
• The Worst Resume of the Week: A Bad Start
• Don’t Use “MVP” as an Excuse to Write Bad Software
• Why No One Talks About Agile Testing!
• Quitting Your Job to Pursue Your Passion is Bullshit
• On Strategizing
• How to Stamp Out Creativity
• What Makes a (Good) Product?
• Quantified Self Meets IDE: A Year of Data
• A Working Definition of Agile
• What Does It Mean To Be An Agile Tester?
• Is There Value in Having Non-Technical People Do Code Review?
• What It Really Means to Niche Down
• Unbundled
• GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart
• 10 Tips for Writing Good User Stories
• Creating Your Code Review Checklist
• Junior vs Senior Developers: What’s the Difference, Anyway?
• We Are Here To Win
• Losing Money
• Ideas for making better conference talks & conferences
• Startups: Five Ways to Reduce Failure Risk
• Let’s stop talking about quality
• Escaping the Legacy Skill Quicksand
• Software Rewrite: The Chase
• Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco?
• Analysts aren’t managers
• How We Teach Programming, and Where We’re Going Wrong
• Corporate Strategy Conformism
• Agile Economics: Gambling Issues
• Why You Should Do Periodic Reviews of Legacy Code
• Why I Deferred Harvard to Work Full Time at a Startup
• What I learned about helping teams use WIP limits
• A Hierarchy of Needs for Software Development
• Agile Economics: Scale 3D
• The Customer is Not Always Right
• Startup Bubbles Bursting
• Doing things that don’t scale and grandparents
• The First Exception Changes the Rules of the Game
• Be Careful with Software Metaphors
• Scrum Masters – First, Do No Harm
• The practice of reflection in action
• The Cost of Being Right
• Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business
• Dealing with Legacy Code for Developers: Managing your Manager
• The Hidden Time-Saving Benefits of Code Reviews
• Feature Bloat – the Silent Epidemic
• 6 Reasons NOT to Build Team Before MVP
• What really must a Scrum Master do?
• Introduction : Play and learn as a software developer