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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower - Project Management

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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Interview Coding Challenges: A Way to Hire Developers Who Know their Code

Teamweek

Interview coding challenges are critical when hiring new software developers. Finding the right developer can be a difficult process. A potential candidate may look perfect on paper and ace a face-to-face interview, but how do you test their coding skills? What are Interview Coding Challenges for Developers?

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If you are not doing Test First then you are doing it wrong!

Scrum.org

Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First Principals. A common form of Test First is Test Driven Development (TDD) and we can use it to meet more of our customer’s expectations, minimise our maintenance costs, and get fewer regressions and bugs in production.

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5 Steps to Get the (Right) Software Engineering Job on a Top Technical Team

Planio

So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? Self-taught vs. school: Do top tech teams really care?

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Zen and Code Maintenance

Leading Agile

We’ve had a bad habit at our house over the years. The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. If anything, you ought to ask for special permission not to keep the code clean as you go. Warning: This may be a little bit preachy. We just do it.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. And so what we were talking about was the idea, on theme for the last couple of these recordings of, what are the necessary preconditions to be able to do software craftsmanship well?

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

This may be due to the project itself, which is becoming more complex because of the multitude of parameters it contains. A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. As a result, everyone develops an individual level of risk tolerance, which a good project manager must also consider within their team.