Tag: Leadership and career
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Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and design -- balancing risk to gain reward
Posted on April 13, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article from Interaction Design Foundation on the merit of MVP. The idea of the minimum viable product (MVP) has been around for some time. But why is the concept of value vital to the MVP strategy?
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career
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Avoiding the wrong MVP approach
Posted on April 7, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An interesting article by Jared M. Spool about Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and how it is not about coding every time.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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The 4 Inflection Points of Company Culture
Posted on March 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot, wrote this interesting article about lessons from HubSpot's journey from startup to scaleup. HubSpot is inbound marketing and sales software that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers.
Tags leadership-and-career
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4 lessons for modern software developers from 1970s mainframe programming
Posted on January 20, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Alan Zeichick inspiring article about how current programmers should adopt several attitudes that early mainframe developers considered an essential part of their skill sets.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Lambda architecture at Indix p1
Posted on January 13, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Rajesh Muppalla article about how they at Indix went about implementing stateless lambda architecture for building the big data pipeline. They have built a catalog of several million products and billions of price points collected from thousands of e-commerce websites.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career
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Sizing up revenue in application container market
Posted on January 11, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jay Lyman and Greg Zwakman are authors of this interesting study in which they project and estimate container software market. This is update from previous year in which over 150+ of vendors took a part.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Onboard people, not technology
Posted on December 21, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Marcus Blankenship article in which he focuses on onboarding process in software companies. He rightly points out that setting up a productive dev environment isn't onboarding.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Negotiating key IT vendor contracts and CIO
Posted on November 1, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Brian E. Thomas article on valude proposition when negotiating new contracts. While it's important for CIOs to provide a strategic advantage and to work on creating a partnership mentality, one area that needs to be smartly managed are those cumbersome and expensive vendor contracts.
Tags leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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How Hotjar built 100% distributed company
Posted on October 24, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Short article about creating a distributed company. Working remotely 100% of the time may be a dream for many of us. But as much as it sounds exciting and easy, it comes with major challenges. From author's own experience, bad internet connection which makes you repeat yourself endlessly is just the beginning.
Tags leadership-and-career
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Core values and practices for building software
Posted on October 15, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Evan Bottcher - technical principal at ThoughtWorks - take on core values for building great software. When it comes to the craft of building software, he recognizes some fundamental software engineering values that ThoughtWorks share.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Tips for creating agile product roadmap
Posted on October 15, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Roman Pichler published this post some time ago but advice in it still applies today. A product roadmap is a powerful tool to describe how a product is likely to grow, to align the stakeholders, and to acquire a budget for developing the product. But creating an effective roadmap is not easy, particularly in an agile context where changes occur frequently and unexpectedly.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career
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LinkedIn Tips for Highly Effective Code Review
Posted on October 4, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Szczepan Faber blog post about LinkedIn code review process. LinkedIn recently passed the milestone of having conducted one million code reviews. The head of the social networking service's tooling shared a few learned lessons along the way.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering