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Women and the Software Industry: The Truth about Stereotypes, Retention, and the Gender Gap

How stereotype threat keeps women from staying in the software industry, and how we can fight it with education, encouragement, and networking.

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Every software developer needs a basic understanding of computer science in four essential areas.

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The motivations and principles of Agile are applicable to many engineering disciplines outside of software development, including hardware itself.

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Take some time, give lunch & learns, set aside the last 15 minutes of a meeting, or just sit down with a colleague and “teach”.

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We’ve recently found automated tests to be more useful than we originally realized and have started to put them to other uses.