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Leadership & Management
Key Takeaways from the Deloitte Survey of Millennials
1 in 4 Millennials plan to quit their job in the next year.
Discussion: How do you know if you have workplace culture or just a workplace cult?
Rand Fiskin, Dharmesh Shah, and others weigh in on this topic.
Daily Goals and Software Teams: Why and How
People who make stuff, like programmers, writers, and designers, are limited to working on one or two intellectual tasks per day. That’s it.
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
The rapid acquisition phase of a software developer–Advanced Beginnerism–will last for years rather than weeks. And during these years, the software developers are job-hopping and earning promotions, especially these days.
Meet Is Murder
They’re boring. They’re useless. Everyone hates them. So why can’t we stop having meetings?
Why your Scrum project is not working
Too often people tend to forget that Scrum – as most of the Agile frameworks – was designed as a problem-finding, rather than a problem-solving framework.
Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team
Being “always on” hurts results. When employees are constantly monitoring their email after work hours — whether this is due to a fear of missing something from you, or because they are addicted to their devices — they are missing out on essential down time that brains need.
Only Slightly Off-Topic
The Website Obesity Crisis
If present trends continue, there is the real chance that articles warning about page bloat could exceed 5 megabytes in size by 2020.
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