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You Found the Right Fit; Now Start Them on the Right Foot: How Onboarding Can be Painful or Powerful

It’s your first day at your new job. You show up ready to conquer the world. You meet all the new people, get all the paperwork done and sit down at your new desk for the first …

One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Bunch: Why Hiring For Culture is Critical

Most of us spend as many waking hours with our co-workers as we do our own spouses. Yet we are far more careful about the character and compatibility of a spouse than we are coworkers. Why is …

The Super Powers of Full Stack: Fracturing Responsibilities Fractures Results

Business Superhero. Mixed media

To many, the term full-stack development may sound like a buzz word that is just a trendy concept, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. As the title suggests, it does give your development team superpowers. …

So You Want to be a Product Manager

So you want to be a Product Manager? And not only in title! You aren’t looking to write requirements, hand them off to the development team, release, and repeat. You’re looking to discover the right problems and …

Sharpen Your Axe: How Slowing Down Can Help You Speed Up

MAN VS TREE A young man was walking down his street and saw his neighbor chopping down a tree in his yard. The young man stopped and watched for a while and noticed his neighbor getting very …

In the Competitive Arena: How a Change in Perspective Can Bring a Lot of Joy

Some people love competition. However, when the subject of competition comes up during a coaching session, the emotions instead are usually centered on anxiety and fear. How is it possible for competition to evoke pure joy in …

Quality as a Responsibility, Not a Role

There are all kinds of checks and balances that can be put into place, and much planning and preparation that comes with the territory of ensuring high-quality software. But sometimes – despite our best efforts – errors …

Great Expectations: Software Engineers

When we chat with professionals in the Software Engineering community, we often hear painful stories from their work lives. “An engineer spent a week building a new feature only to discover a teammate changed a critical interface …

Learn Fast

Fail fast. This is a phrase we hear a lot, but listening and practicing are two completely different things. No one likes failing. No one wants to release a product that isn’t perfect, but sometimes, you must …

The path to being a great engineer

Every time I look at the job descriptions on Salary.com , I get frustrated by the lack of understanding of what truly makes a higher-level Software Engineer. I also worry about what new engineers coming into the field think …