-
Rubrics cubed: Attempting to quantify the qualitative in the interview process
Shawna Martell and Dan Fike discussed how they created their rubrics and introduced them to their organization, and what they discovered about how the process has affected their hiring outcomes.
-
Harassers are nice to me
Sarah Milstein looks at techniques for surfacing and addressing bad behaviour in the workplace.
-
Blame, shame and panic – how not to respond when things go wrong
Jemma Bolland explores her own reactions to being in the chain of responsibility, protecting the team and helping them to feel safe enough to take responsibility and grow from these experiences.
-
Death and life of great software teams
Vaidehi Joshi looks at how we can apply Jane Jacobs principles of a vibrant city to a vibrant codebase.
-
Paying down management debt without burning out
Frankie Nicoletti gives practical advice for triaging, prioritizing, and taking effective action to pay down your management debt while honoring your work/life balance.
-
Equipping your team to support junior developers
Aisha Blake discusses actionable steps for building junior-inclusive practices through active reflection, sustainable processes, and a focus on empathetic communication.
-
Don’t squander your inheritance: expert advice for taking over existing teams
Camille Acey and Stacy Justino talk us through their experiences, challenges, and best practices as well as sharing the strategies and resources they used in the cases where they had to "turn the ship around".
-
Instilling the built-in quality mindset into a dev team
Larissa Rosochansky and Rafael Cintra look at how we, as Technical Leaders, can help our teams to understand that quality is not the QA’s work, and must be distilled in every action, every line of code, every single little commit the team does.
-
Level up your code reviews
Denise Yu gets us thinking about code reviews in terms of different lenses to help engineers of all experience levels build a vocabulary for seeking and providing feedback in a healthy, thoughtful, and collaborative way.
-
Software estimation – embracing nuance and controlled chaos
Karl Sanford explains how to embrace nuance, control chaos, and begin to confidently deliver on your commitments.