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Career Evaluation: Taking Stock of Your Life and Work at Year’s End

The end of the year is a natural time to take stock of your life. Hopefully, this rough outline for career evaluation will help you find your way.

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Document Your Process to Teach and Learn a New Task Well

One thing that’s helped me teach and learn new tasks is our team’s emphasis on documentation and a defined way to pass along process.

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How to Prepare a Career Talk About Testing for 200 High School Sophomores

I'll soon be giving a career talk about testing to 200 high schoolers. Reviewing how I moved from developer to tester helped me form some concrete advice.

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3 Hackathon Habits Developers Should Bring to Their Professional Work

There are habits and techniques developers use during a hackathon that they should bring into their professional work more often.

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Want to Be a Better Manager? Read Lara Hogan

Lara Hogan helps managers lead with empathy, work inclusively, and become more effective using straightforward tools and concepts for managing people.

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Use “Remember the Future” to Build a Shared Vision with Your Software Team

You can use the "Remember the Future" exercise not just for a product launch or milestone but also to build a shared vision with your software team.

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Empathy When Reading Others’ Code

Software developers can apply empathy in many ways. But I’m going to focus on utilizing empathy when reading others' code.

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3 Vital Tips for Students for a Successful Virtual Career Fair

Virtual career fairs are valuable for both students and employers. But these virtual events have distinct differences from traditional career fairs.

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An Overview of 3 Years of Projects as a Software Consultant

I hope this post is an interesting window into life as a software consultant for anyone without much idea about how that works.

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Gimme Some Sugar: A Quick Way to Make a Colleague’s Day

Consider creating your own Sugarcube Board. Let’s express the gratitude we feel for folks that go out of their way to make our work lives better.

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Restructuring My Role as a Mentor – A Reflection on LeadDev Together

Over the past few months, I've been attending the LeadDev Together conference. I'm taking these strategies with me into my future as both mentee and mentor.

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Career Development: What’s Your Habitat?

When it comes to career development, what's your habitat? With abundant sun, food, and water, you’ll have the resources you need to grow and thrive.

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