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Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me
When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.
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Where are all the laid-off software developers going?
This year has been relentless with layoffs across the technology sector, but where are these thousands of software engineers landing next?
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The 11 Types Of Toxic Pull Requests (According To 4.5 Million Code Branches)
After reviewing millions of PRs, we've found the 11 that are dragging down your engineering team.
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The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs
Featuring the best minds from Slack, Netlify and Ambassador Labs, this panel on Inspiring Engineering Leaders & Driving Developer Creativity turned into…
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How To Opt Out Of The Career Ladder
The art of taking your first steps off the “conventional” career path.
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Jean Hsu
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How To Create Compound Efficiencies In Engineering
Improvements in your engineering team's workflow don't occur independent of each other.
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How Healthy Engineering Teams Invest Their Time
Fact: Developers like to spend their time working on things that matter.
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Conor Bronsdon
3 Proven Ways To Improve Dev Focus
Focus is the most precious thing your developers have. Here are 3 musts for every engineering org.
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Inside the Workflow Metrics of Elite Dev Teams
DORA metrics aren’t enough on their own. Here's how dev teams can make the leap to elite performance by focusing on pull request size and dev workflow…
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4 Engineering Slides CEOs Love (That You Can Have For Free)
Never stress out before meeting your boss again.
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DORA Metrics: We’ve Been Using Them Wrong
How the top 10% of engineering teams think about metrics.
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Analysis: The Quickest Path To Halving Software Delivery Time
Research from Google and others sheds light on the easiest path to cutting cycle time.
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Conor Bronsdon
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Ben Lloyd Pearson
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