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How to Become a More Productive Software Engineer (Productivity Tips & Workflows)

Planio

So how can you become a more productive software engineer? Develop feedback loops to know what work brings the biggest results. Learn to work with your body’s natural ebbs and flows of energy. Here’s how to answer each: Develop feedback loops to know what work brings the biggest results. Let’s dive in and find out!

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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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Team workload management: How to avoid your team feeling overwhelmed

Planio

Define your scope, break it down into manageable tasks, and assign them to your team. How do you engage and get the most out of your underperformers? So, what’s the secret to maintaining your heavy workload without your team feeling overwhelmed? Team vs. personal workload management. Workload management.

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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers. But getting them to join your team is a skill on its own.

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Face It: Silos Exist. Here’s How to Make the Most of Them

LiquidPlanner

There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. Imagine you’re running a sales team.

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What is Pre-Employment Skills Testing? Definition & Benefits

Teamweek

Pre-employment skills testing is like giving your HR team a time machine. With an accurate picture of candidates’ skills — your team can avoid spending up to $16,999 in turnover costs with the wrong fit! Then they’ll only have a handful of relevant candidates to interview, saving the hiring team valuable time.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Chakraborty and K.