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Link: Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development
July 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
In the title, I refer to people as “components”. That is how people are treated in the process / methodology design literature. The mistake in this approach is that “people” are highly variable and non-linear, with unique success and failure … [Continue reading]
Link: “Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture”
July 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A funny thing happens when engineers make mistakes and feel safe when giving details about it: they are not only willing to be held accountable, they are also enthusiastic in helping the rest of the company avoid the same error in the future. They … [Continue reading]
Link: Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous
July 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The most important thing to know is – trust me, if you are smart enough to build stuff, you can crack this. To paraphrase Paul Graham’s premise in founding YCombinator, “It’s easier to teach an engineer business than it is to teach a business … [Continue reading]
Link: “I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why”
July 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Programmers who pay attention to how they construct written language also tend to pay a lot more attention to how they code. You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers are more than just code monkeys; according to Stanford programming … [Continue reading]
