Atomic Accelerator Pursing a Career in Software Development? Focus on Teamwork Emotional intelligence skills you learn through teamwork will be more valuable throughout your life than learning one more programming language.
Project & Team Management When Less Becomes More For Large Product Teams Sometimes, the right choice is to proactively shrink a team to help a client. Time is a valuable resource, and small teams work hard to hit tight deadlines.
Effective communication 3 Practices for Improving Remote Team Communication A combination of these three practices has reduced a feeling of isolation and greatly improved my personal experience with remote team communication.
UX & Design Future Press Releases: An Alternative Way Writing a Future Press Release is a powerful Design Thinking exercise. Here's an alternative way to achieve the same results remotely or in person.
Project & Team Management Bringing a Team Together – 5 Things to Do at the Beginning of a Project The beginning of a project can be overwhelming. Here are five things I like to do to figure out how to get started and how to keep the team moving.
Project & Team Management Advice for Scrum Masters Joining New Teams Any scrum master new to a team would be eager to introduce improvements. But try to remember it’s not about you – first, focus on your team.
Effective communication I Don’t Want Your Brain Dump Organizing your thoughts matters — don't brain dump! Know when, why, and how to synthesize information into something useful to your audience.
Growing as Makers 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.
UX/Design Tools Synchronous Collaboration in Figma Has Been a Game Changer Making the transition from Sketch to synchronous collaboration in Figma drastically increased our team's ability to work together effectively.
Project & Team Management 3 Problems Big Software Teams Face and How To Mitigate Them If you are in a situation where big software teams are necessary, these common pitfalls and mitigation strategies may pay off for you and your team.
Managing Your Team Challenging Ideas in a Non-challenging Way Rather than be a voice of opposition to an idea, I try to ask questions to help folks work through the problem-solving process on their own.
Project & Team Management How to Lead Your Software Team Through Change The most thoughtful way to lead teams through changes takes time, but doing so with care and patience will build team trust and camaraderie.
