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The Evolution of Software Development and Future Outlook
Overview of software development evolution, with future insights and suggestions for Engineering Managers and Engineers
My engineering manifesto. On software engineering.
Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating be
Are you dealing with underestimation in agile development? In this post, Smart Guess shares valuable insights to help teams a
Interviewing Tips: Technical Challenges – Coding & more
After making it through the initial application selection and conquering a first set of introductory interviews the interview process often moves on to some form of “technical challenges”. The goal…
What is a Staff Engineer?
Diving into the Staff Engineer Role, with Raviraj from Meta
The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster – Rands in Repose
Business is noisy. Business is full of people worrying loudly about projects, process, and other people. These people have opinions and they share them all over the place -- all the time. This collective chatter is part of the daily regimen of a healthy business, but this chatter will bury the indi
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If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charity.wtf
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…
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Cloud Resume Challenge - My Journey - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
My Story I'm a Systems Administrator and Configuration Management specialist as part of my...
World GDP over the last two millennia
Total output of the world economy; adjusted for inflation and expressed in international-$ in 2011 prices.
How Do You Know If a Company Has a Good Remote Work Culture?
The pandemic has turned lots of people on to the benefits of working remotely, creating a large pool of workers who will want remote jobs. Here’s a guide to making sure that a company’s culture supports its remote employees.
Obvious advice
This is a common scene at the MIRI offices: I have a decision to make, like what sort of winter fundraiser to run. Before making any choices, I take a few minutes to write down all the obvious things to do before making the decision: spend five minutes brainstorming options
It Is Your Responsibility to Follow Up - Alexey Guzey
See: reddit discussion of this post (50 comments), Tildes discussion of this post (20 comments) Also see: cold emails (with examples) Here’s how Travis Kalanick’s inbox looked like back in 2013: Source (perma) If you wanted to reach Travis — and keep in mind that at some point during the last six years he probably hit #inbox1m — would you just send him one email and hope that it wins the lottery when he randomly reaches for something in his inbox? Probably not. Instead, what …
Professional marketing copy for anyone | Headlime
Writing effective marketing copy can be tough or time consuming. Headlime uses artificial intelligence and templates to make writing faster and easier. You'll spend less time on content and more time on results.
How to become a freelancer in the UK, according to those who've done it | Creative Boom
In normal times, there are many reasons to go freelance, including the freedom to set your own hours, choose the type of work you want to do, and potentially earn more money. In 2020, many of us ha...
Tropical MBA – Location Independent Entrepreneurship – Location Independent Entrepreneurship
Since 2009, the TMBA podcast has been downloaded millions of times. Join thousands of entrepreneurs every Thursday at 8 AM EST for a new episode.
There's gold in your biz's processes and mining them is the future, says bloke behind topic's first practical guide • The Register
El Reg speaks to Siemen's Lars Reinkemeyer
Sharing our Remote First Processes, Tools and Guidelines for Fellow Corona-Dodgers — Super Evil Megacorp
At Super Evil Megacorp, we’ve been working toward becoming friendly to remote team members for a while now. Last year, we upgraded our goal from just being remote friendly to becoming a Remote First studio. To us, “Remote First” means being intentional about our processes, technology, operations and culture to ensure a feeling of equity, […]
Stacking the Bricks: Build Your Business, One Win At A Time
Ship more stuff. Make more money. Help more people.
Positioning Strategy for the Aspiring Software Consultant - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
If you're a newly minted consultant, how should you position yourself? It's a tough question, but here's a hint: not the way you're used to positioning yourself as an employee.
Components of a Business Plan for a Freelancing or Consulting Business—With Examples
Having a business plan can boost your chances of success! Learn the basic components of a business plan and get free templates and examples.
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The Mythical Mythical Man-Month — Smashing Magazine
How do you move faster when adding folks to a project supposedly slows it down? Mailchimp’s CPO takes the reader through some considerations for preserving momentum while scaling up.
The power of soft skills in product development: Insights from engineering leaders - DEPT®
Development teams at the highest level focus on interpersonal soft skills and quality interaction just as much as technical aptitude.
Lessons from Bootstrapped Companies Founded by Software Engineers
We hear little about bootstrapped companies, despite bootstrapping being an effective way to get up and running. We cover five successful bootstrapped firms you’ve probably not heard of – until now
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools
Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.