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1. 12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies
What does tech management at Slack, HubSpot, Netflix, Etsy, Shopify, InVision, and more have in common? A lot, apparently!
2. My Terrible Experience Applying for a Job at Crossover for Work
Crossover for Work advertises dozens of jobs all the time, many of them highly paid, many for senior developers and architects. Everyone works from home.
3. Facilitating Team Development in a High-Pressure Environment
Understanding the specific challenges and opportunities that arise when molding a team in high-pressure environments.
4. How To Use the "10/50/99" Approach to Give Feedback
And how it reduces the odds you frustrate your team to the brink of leaving
5. Parenting Skills That Shape Effective Business Leadership
As a parent, I've found that these seven parenting skills have helped me become a better business leader in my everyday life.
6. How Many Hours Per Day Do Programmers Actually Work?
What do you think, how long do programmers actually work per day? Most people would say that the answer is 8-9 hours. Some say that they work 12 hours or more per day. While that is somewhere true, it’s not the amount that most programmers actually work, because you can’t consider browsing the web as working, right?
7. Nailing your first months as a new Engineering Manager
Congratulations! You’ve been hired or promoted into a management role, and need to quickly transition from being an individual contributor to actually leading, inspiring and managing people. Not so confident about what to do next, and how to ensure your team and you are successful?
8. The T-Shaped Product Manager 2019 (Part 1 — Core Competencies)
Read more about these contributors and things they shared in January of 2019 in the <a href="https://medium.com/@valentine_27308/the-state-of-product-management-blogs-january-2019-feae486426fd" target="_blank">last overview.</a>
9. 8 Mistakes we made in our Company’s First 8 Years
When you’re first starting out, everything is a mistake. Everything is a failure and life sucks. But, the mistakes are actually a personal godsend, because you learn from them. You overcome challenges. You make a better thing, or service, because you made mistakes that helped you to grow.
10. Releases And Sprints Planning: A Guide to Elevating Scrum Workflows
Planning is the foundation of a Scrum-based management framework. It helps arrange a team, set goals clearly and achieve them.
11. How to Teach People to Make the Right Decisions and Delegate Important Business Tasks With no Stress
Discover effective strategies for decision-making and delegation in business, fostering a culture of responsibility and continuous improvement.
12. Embracing Career Upskilling and Reskilling: Staying Relevant in a Rapidly Changing Job Market
By 2025, 50% of all employees will need reskilling as the adoption of technology increases.
13. How to EFFECTIVELY Manage Young Product Managers
The ultimate guide on how to manage young PMs in your team. Includes Dos and Don’ts, examples and modus operandi using which I wish I was led/managed early on when I started as a PM. Also, young PMs could takeaway lessons from here on what to expect and ask from your managers.
14. Engineer Onboarding: The Ugly Truth About Ramp-Up Time
Though people often think about the time it takes for a new engineer to start delivering value, they rarely ask themselves how long it takes for them to be fully ramped-up.
15. How To Use Guilds For Better Knowledge Transfer Between Engineers
Hello, Hacker Noon people! Technology guilds are a popular but still fresh way of implementing communities of practices in companies. Still, there are many questions, especially related to guild responsibilities and organization. Together with Andrew Kozin, I've prepared this post for you as a summary of our personal experience and understanding of the role of a technology guild nowadays.
16. The Matthew Principle of Accumulated Advantage and How the Poor Get Poorer
The Matthew Effect or Matthew Principle of accumulated advantage, is sometimes summarized by the adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer".
17. Managers, Do You Wait for the Doorknob Effect?
If you are not sure what a Doorknob effect is, you probably want to keep reading. Either you’ve seen it before and didn’t act properly, or worse you just missed it.
18. How You Can Measure and Evaluate Performance of Software Engineers
Engineers need feedback so they can improve skills and deepen knowledge. According to the editor of the Inc. Magazine, Jeff Hayden, traditional metrics can be misleading, as they do not always offer a clear result. Evaluating the work of staff used to be difficult, before Git Analytics tools, such as Waydev came up with a data-driven approach to engineering leadership to help you bring out the best in your engineers.
19. 7 Rules to Track Software Engineering Metrics Correctly
How to Use - and NOT Abuse - Software Engineering Metrics
20. How Bad Managers Work: 9 Signs of a Terrible Manager
If you have worked long enough, chances are you have encountered a bad manager yourself. What was it about them that irked you the most - were they unforgiving, critical, demanding, abusive, aggressive, neglectful, grumpy, lousy or plain inept? Was it their attention seeking behaviour, attitude to blame and insult others, inability to trust or lack of integrity that caused you the most mental agony.
21. The 36 Highest Paying Cities for Management Consultants in the US
Here is everything you might want to know about what a management consultant does and how much someone can earn in the role.
22. I Learned the Hard Way That Startup High Executives Profit While Employees Struggle
Who really profits in a startup? Our deep dive into startup salaries reveals how executives secure big paydays while employees take on the risk.
23. Simple Questions for Trading Your Day up
Dive into a transformative practice that sharpens focus, fosters growth, and illuminates the path to day-to-day excellence.
24. Behavioral Interview: The Guide to Fitting In
Behavioral interviews assess how a candidate's experience matches a company's needs. Culture fit and compelling stories are key to nailing these interviews.
25. Say Goodbye to Scrum and Kanban: Welcome 6-week Product Cycle
Up until pretty recently my company’s tech team managed its projects through a Kanban-board. In practice this entailed that we’d come up with a product roadmap for the 12 months ahead and would start working on this from top to bottom, moving tickets through the usual swimming lanes as we went.
26. Making the Most of 1-on-1 Meetings
Easy-to-follow guide on effective 1-on-1 meetings, that will lead your team to honest feedback culture and greater transparency.
27. Why I Left Engineering Management and Moved Back to Individual Contribution
Thinking of transitioning away from Engineering Manager to Individual Contributor? That is exactly what I did! Let me tell you a little bit about it.
28. Efficiency in the Q-Commerce Business: The strategic Overview
In this article, I will share my strategic understanding of efficiency in Q-commerce and how it is deeply interconnected with growth.
29. 5 Best Collaboration Platforms for Developers
The most effective way to maximize the productivity of your development team is to use collaboration tools. Software developers these days are not expected to work full-time without even contacting or communicating with each other for long. If there is no collaboration among the workers, your million-dollar worth of a product cannot sustain since it’s been developed in a communication-restrictive environment.
30. How To Go From Manager to Leader
Learn actionable strategies to unlock your leadership potential and advance your career.
31. 15 Free Printable Blog Planners to Help You Grow Your Audience
One of the most handy tools in a blogger’s tool belt is a blog planner.
32. How Microsoft's Ruthless Employee Ranking System Annihilated Team Collaboration
How Microsoft's Ruthless Employee Ranking System Annihilated Team Collaboration
33. 5 Benefits of Project Planning and Management
Here are some of the reasons you should create a plan and layout your project before you get started.
34. The Simple Life of Humans
The Pursuit of Simplicity Only Serves to Manufacture Our Consent, Not Our Understanding.
35. Every Team is Made Up of These 4 Personality Types
The PDIG framework covers the way people work together.
36. 11 Techniques and 5 Tools to Work Toward Limitless Team Productivity
Team productivity drives success to companies in all industries. The role of the team leader is to help the team achieve better results without a professional burning-out. How do you increase team productivity and keep a healthy atmosphere in the office?
37. Goodbye Product Management - Hello Data Product Leadership
Product Management is out, Data Product Leadership is in! Discover how this pivotal shift can revolutionize your business strategy!
38. Do Product Managers Need to Understand SQL and Python?
We asked our Product Management community, ‘Do Product Managers Need SQL/ Python?' Read all about what they had to say.
39. The Noonification: How Often Do NFTs Pass The Howey Test? (1/13/2023)
1/13/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!
40. How To Transition From Being A Programmer to Project Manager Position
You know that the digital project management field is growing, so companies require a fantastic project manager (PM). In case you are a programmer, then you know about the working of digital tools, tight-knit teams, competing deadlines and outside clients. Therefore you can become a proper PM and fulfill the requirements of the company. In the modern era, the majority of the people are looking for programming as their careers, so you must have to find a path to stand out. It is possible that you get tired of optimizing user experience (UX) by debugging codes, and now you want a different type of challenge.
41. 🧩 Why Do We Need APIs Anyways?
If you’ve been anywhere close to a computer engineer, you’d have definitely noticed them drop the term - API. A software engineer would use the term for so many varied purposes that it’s easy to lose the track of the conversation and left hanging in there, wondering, “Why the heck we need APIs?”
42. An Introduction to Pain Management: How To Deal With Pain
Pain can be difficult to deal with, but there are different management options for pain depending on person, gender and clinical conditions. Read about pain.
43. "Emotions make your mind dumb and kill logic": A Blunt Perspective on How to Live
You only have one life, make it big!
44. The 5 Best Books Every CTO and Engineer Manager Should Read
Here’s my recommendation when it comes to books that will help a technical person to get into management and executive functions.
45. A Programmer's Guide to Crack 'Twice the Work, Half the Time' Code
Modern methods of software measurement do not provide a strong base for continuous improvement. This article tries to fill this gap.
46. Thoughts on Organizational Health: A Take on Pulse
Over-reliance on Pulse surveys as the only practice for employee feedback and management accountability will hurt the organization. here are some alternatives.
47. The Crowdsourced Guide to Remote Working in the Age of Coronavirus
General Introductions to Remote Working (... you can contribute here).
48. What Differentiates a Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior Developer
I often wondered about the difference between junior, mid-level, and senior developers, so I decided to write a short article about the topic.
49. 5 Acceptance Criteria Mistakes Teams Should Avoid
Everyone wants to go Agile today. Teams want to put the user in the centre of their product development process while building products. After all, you are building the product for your users, right?
50. Saying No to Your Boss is Never Easy, But Sometimes it's Necessary
It was a Friday morning and I was waiting in the conference room for my manager. We had just achieved a great milestone as a team and delivered a highly critical time sensitive project. It wasn’t an ordinary success as the entire organization was counting on this platform for a mega event.
51. If You Want To Be An Effective Manager You Have To Master These 3 Skills
Good management does not require being a superhuman with extraordinary skills. It only requires practicing these three essential skills.
52. What You Should Know Before Using the RACI Matrix: Benefits and Lessons Learned From Mistakes
RACI is a framework that helps to clarify who does what in a project.
53. The Impact, Symptoms and Management of Stress
Are you frequently feeling stressed out? If so, this article discusses some of the physiological symptoms associated with stress and offers tips for reducing
54. Are You Telling The Story of Your Software?
This is Minard's analysis of the fall of Napoleon's Grand Army at the French invasion of Russia in 1812, considered a masterpiece of analytic design:
55. My Best Employees Keep Leaving and I Know I'm The Reason
I keep losing my best employees. I know I'm the reason, but I refuse to change. So how do I screw up my best people? I challenge and provide them with feedback.
56. Code Review: It's Bad, Expensive, and Ineffective [in most cases]
I am reviewing a practice we’re all aware of: code review.
57. 122 Stories To Learn About Teamwork
Learn everything you need to know about Teamwork via these 122 free HackerNoon stories.
58. How Successful Managers Delegate Work Effectively
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, right? The perfectionist in you likes to be in control and is good at finding excuses - “Outcome won’t be as good.” “It will take me longer to assign and explain than to do it myself.” “I don’t have anyone with the right skills.” “No one in the team wants to do it anyway.”
59. Why you don't Need Management Experience for a Leadership Role
You have probably noticed that most management positions require previous management experience. How can you get that experience without getting the job?
60. The Problem With Promotion-Obsessed Cultures
The problems with promo-culture
61. What it's Like to Work with a Really Terrible Developer
If you’ve never had this experience you have my envy. You’re on a development team and one of the developers does sloppy work and there is nothing you can do about it.
62. Startups: Pulse Surveys are Dumb.
There’s something I’ve been saying since SoapBox was first born: employee surveys are dumb. They’re really, frustratingly dumb. They’re not the solution to the employee engagement crisis. They’re part of the problem.
63. 260 Stories To Learn About Team Productivity
Learn everything you need to know about Team Productivity via these 260 free HackerNoon stories.
64. 5 Steps to Increase Your Sales Department’s Efficiency
The sales department is a huge factor in the company's success. Here are 5 steps on increasing its' effectiveness and thus company's revenue
65. Shadow Mode: The Dark Side of Outsourcing That Nobody Tells You About
Note: Although there are many articles about the pros and cons of outsourcing, I found nothing useful to inform the product owners about fraud prevention. It's about time to fix this. Imagine the situation: you find a suitable developer, work with them for a few weeks, then you end up seeing their code quality become poor. What is that? Lack of motivation? Dark times personally which reflect in their work? The stars aligned wrong? Or is it shadow mode?
66. Defeating Hydra: The Growing Problem of Complexity in Web Development
Why web development is stupidly complicated, and why the solutions are stupidly simple
67. 60+ Ideas to Help Your Startup Survive the Coronavirus Recession
- Assess your current state
68. 23 Time-Tested Apps to Manage Your Remote Software Development Team
The demand for software developers is ever-increasing, with many industries turning to IT for help concerning marketing, automation processes, etc. It's estimated that by the end of 2019, the total number of software developers will count over 26 million. Scattered around the globe, managing them online could prove to be a difficult job for managers.
69. Paying Attention to Every Detail: How to Work With the Metrics to Increase Your Revenue
Every significant business result consists of micro-level metrics that one can and should manage daily. Learn how to increase your revenue with small steps.
70. Leadership: A Blessing Or A Curse?
You are a leader; therefore, you must understand: if your judgment is listened to and you, as an influencer, can impact the collective mood.
71. From Mid to Senior: How to Deal With Imposter Syndrome
Combat Impostor Syndrome as a developer. Understand it, identify signs, and learn strategies to manage self-doubt while stepping into senior roles.
72. We Need to Stop Wasting Time With Our Daily Standups: Make Them Count
Daily standups costs average-sized product engineering teams 6-figure sums every year, so we sure as heck need to make them count.
73. I Get 100+ Emails A Day: How I Manage My Inbox To Stay Sane And Productive
Today, I’m tackling the question of a full inbox — what are the best ways to declutter it and deal with every single email?
74. Cross Functional Collaboration and How to Handle its Challenges
In a fast-moving, ever-changing, dynamic work environment, the ability to collaborate effectively isn’t a necessity, it’s a superpower.
75. 4 Simple Habits For Engineering Teams To Beat Technical Debt
In the previous article, we looked at the macro trends that make tech debt inevitable. However, even though tech debt is a fact of life, technical bankruptcy doesn't have to be. So this time, let's look at the methods we can employ to avoid technical bankruptcy and save everyone a lot of grief, time, and money.
76. Unveiling the Secrets of 1-2-1 Meetings in the Development Department to Prevent Employee Attrition!
Unlock team success with proven strategies! Learn 1-2-1 meeting techniques, goal-driven management, and efficient note-taking for impactful leadership.
77. The ROI of Git Analytics tools
Software engineers create all those great platforms and tools for every other industry, and yet, engineering leaders struggle to understand the work of their engineering teams. They struggle to correlate engineering output to business value.
78. What Is Bottleneck in PC World
In the last article, which you can read here, I was talking about which PC components are crucial for programmers. Basically, I listed all the components to worry about, but I’ve also said that you need to keep the Bottleneck in mind. Because, there’re a lot of people who don’t know what is a bottleneck, in this article, I’ll try to explain what that is.
79. What is the Best Advice for First-Time Managers?
Learning to lead and manage teams are essential skills for anyone looking to advance their career.
80. Thinking Strategically Will Help You Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
Strategic thinking is a critical skill in life.
81. Subjectivism and Organizations: Part 1
Hypothetically, organizations should not be characterized by disorder or uncertainty, so they would seem ordered.
82. Here’s a 4 Step Approach to Giving Difficult Feedback
Giving difficult feedback is the most difficult thing you may have to do at work, but building this skill is like building muscle.
83. The Secrets to Building a World-Class Software Engineering Team to Create Cutting-Edge Products
Skilled IT workers are challenging to find and keep – and the talent shortage is bound to continue in 2022. But there’s a recipe that’s guaranteed to work...
84. Once Upon a Time In the East — A Product Manager's Story
Disclaimer: All characters and events depicted in this article are entirely real (and represents the protagonist i.e. the author himself). Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is strictly intentional.
85. Code Review Is Inherently Flawed. Here’s How to Fix It
The classic code review process contains several severe flaws and should be redesigned. The story depicts how to do so.
86. Scaling Backend Development Teams
At its heart, scaling a team is about matching skills to problems. In this piece, we share a guide about scaling backend API software development teams
87. Gamification: A New Era in Workplace Experiences
Explore the impact of low employee motivation and the role of enterprise gamification in boosting engagement, eliminating friction, and fostering creativity.
88. Unhappy With Your Manager? Fix It Without Changing Jobs
Transform your manager-employee relationship with actionable steps and insights. A guide to building trust and understanding.
89. How to Approach Strategic Planning When the Sky is Falling
Can you remember when you used to gather in person with your team to define your roadmap and reassess your company’s collective priorities? Every quarter, our team at Pillar VC convenes for a strategic planning session to decide how we’ll invest our time and energy in the months ahead; last week, we held this meeting for the first time over Zoom. While we’ve only been working remotely for a few weeks, it feels like the world around us has changed at lightning speed.
90. 7 Questions To Help You Find Out If Your Team Feels Psychologically Safe
Does your team have psychological safety? This may be a much more important question than you think. It may seem unintuitive but safety is a critical ingredient to unlocking your team's potential. Google certainly believes so, and Amy Edmondson at Harvard Business School agrees.
91. How to define and spend your tech debt budget
If you’ve ever been involved in sprint planning and argued to carve out time to pay back some technical debt (i.e. define a tech debt budget), this is how to go about it.
92. It's a Fine Line Between Caring for People and Holding Them Accountable at Work
I have been a people person as far as I could remember. So when I first became a manager, I thought “How hard could this be?”
93. 7 Indicators of Poor Developer Experience and Ways to Improve It
Learn how to enhance Developer Experience (DX). Spot signs of poor DX and discover solutions. Learn best practices and tools to boost developer productivity.
94. The Ultimate Guide to One-On-One Meetings for Managers
All managers struggle with the fine balance between doing work that achieves short term goals vs investing time in activities with long term benefits.
95. Management Strategies that Boost Employee Performance
Employee productivity helps an organization achieve its goals. Happy employees are vital resources in leading a business in the right direction.
96. Top Industry Trends for AI Marketing
Companies that embrace AI will be able to test, learn, and iterate much faster, raising the competitive bar for learning.
97. It's Time to Ditch "Be Yourself"
We all contain a complex cocktail of personalities, strengths, and quirks. Which version of yourself should you "be"?
98. Everything You Need to Know About DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Learn everything about DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), and how they could disrupt your industry.
99. The Pillars of a Successful Startup
The ability to launch and scale a project efficiently is a practice mastered with experience and, in most cases, a whole portfolio of failures.
100. 3 Key Rules for Building Deep Tech
I will share my advice for the founders to simplify yet preserve the quality of connection between these different parts of a company.
101. Trust Isn’t Just Black and White
Hypothetical thinking can help you trust in a more flexible, mature, and proactive manner.
102. Why You Must Be Constantly Changing In Order To Succeed
Why change at all? It seems like a nonsensical question, doesn’t it?
103. The Bus Factor Score: How Many Team Members Can get Hit By a Bus Before the Team Fails?
What happens if your development team is hit by a bus? A short explanation of the Bus Factor and how to hold its score at safe levels and why you should.
104. Founder Interviews: Rousseau Kazi of Threads
What's your background?
105. 5 Rules for Effective Team Management in Post-covid Times
The following 5 rules of effective team management help develop our business not only in post-COVID times but in times of war in Ukraine as well.
106. How to Avoid Career Burnout
The best way to avoid career burnout is for employees to prioritize taking care of their mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
107. Micro Optimization: Don't Get Lost In The Rabbit Hole
I had to settle a performance discussion within my team. Because of a simple PR, I started a 2 weeks journey in the dark twists and turns of javascript. To save you a lot of pain and frustrating questions, I sum up my research in this really long post. I tried my best to show you the train of thoughts but if you don’t care about the details, you can jump to the end for the TL;DR section.
108. How Do I Handle Ambiguity as a Leader?
Organizations that thrive are run by leaders who see opportunity in uncertainty, who cut through ambiguity, and who lead with the mindset to gain clarity.
109. Learn The "Disagree and Commit" Exercise for Better Leadership
What can make us incredibly valuable at work - our willingness to disagree openly and commit to helping others succeed or sticking to our arguments even when others have moved forward and a decision has been made.
110. 447 Stories To Learn About Management
Learn everything you need to know about Management via these 447 free HackerNoon stories.
111. Stepping Away From Operational Management
The headspace of the owner is key, especially when they're hands-on in running their business, putting their all into it
112. How To Set and Track KPI Targets
A Key Performance Indicator, also known as KPI, is a value that can be estimated or measured, which shows the effectiveness of your business in meeting and exceeding its key objectives.
113. How Adaptability and Reliability Help Me Build Highly-Functional Teams
During periods of market turbulence and high growth, core values provide a valuable grounding point for decision-making for engineering managers.
114. Always Leave the Code Better than You Found It - Boy Scout Engineering 101
Most engineers have heard of the 'boyscout rule': 'Always leave the code better than you found it.' It's often been heralded as a magic cure for technical debt; if only all software engineers behaved like good citizens, our software wouldn't deteriorate so relentlessly.
115. Tech Team Offboarding: Should You Have a Process in Place?
What to do when an employee leaves: offboarding checklist, which includes all the steps from knowledge transfer to legal compliance.
116. Top 16 Tips to Quickly Boost Your Productivity in 2021
These simple, easy-to-follow productivity tips will improve your output dramatically.
117. Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 things they didn’t tell me
I was 24 years old. A baby.
118. Why Measure EX Through an Organizational 360º Approach?
Productivity comes from an engaged workforce. HR needs a 360-degree solution that measures EX to understand make the environment for a productive workforce
119. How to Lead Your Team's Technical Debt Management
Delivery speed results in cost reduction; confidence enables speed; confidence requires quality.
120. How Ukrainian Women in IT Leadership Navigate the Challenges of War
121. The Noonification: How Do You Create Value for a Product? (12/27/2023)
12/27/2023: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!
122. 17 Ways to Motivate Your Dev Team
123. 4 Ways to Prioritize Productivity over Keeping Busy
Being caught in the ‘busy trap’ makes it harder to see that productivity is not based on the number of hours you put in; it’s the time spent creating value.
124. Yes, There ARE deadlines in Agile
125. Work Culture Toxicity In Tech Field
126. Invert, Always Invert: Why a Problem Reversed is a Problem Solved
"All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." - Charlie Munger
127. Leave Scrum To Rugby - 4 Major Issues With Using Scrum
Scrum is a buzzword, the virtue signal of choice for middle-management in software organizations.
128. Logic Vs. Emotion: What Really Drives Decision Making
How emotions, ego and aspirations influence technological choices. How to answer these psychological need with an objective method.
129. The Role of a Startup Founder: One Thing They Don’t Teach You in Business School
Max Faldin, Founder and CEO of Silverbird, Talks about the Role of a Startup Founder
130. How to Level Up Your Way to C-Suite
Have you ever thought that you have to develop pretty much the same skills if you want to become CMO, CCO, CPO, and basically Chief Anything Officer?
131. 3 Ways To Reach the C-Suite
You can find your way to success from an entry-level to an executive-leadership position. You just have to take the route that compliments your attributes best
132. How I Manage My Team So The Business Can Thrive
Managing Guidance From The Diary of an Amateur (not anymore) CEO Who Runs a Six Million Revenue BusinessWhy invent the wheel when someone has already invented a bicycle? Whether in business or any other category, learning from others’ experiences increases your chances of success along with saving you time, resources, and money.
133. Why Do Most of Us Approach Productivity Incorrectly?
Looking for ways to boost your team's performance? Consider three critical principles that will help maximize productivity and avoid burnout in the workplace.
134. What Engineering Managers Need To Understand About Compensation
A guide for engineering managers (and ICs) about the different types of compensation schemes as well as the advantages and disadvantages of those schemes.
135. Have you Considered Becoming a Product Manager?
Product management is a specialized role with an intelligent blend of business, tech and user experience. A product manager is mostly tasked with the duty of successfully managing the development of a product from start to launch, above other tasks.
136. 5 Reasons to Deploy Six Sigma for Startups in 2021
All large organizations be it multinational corporations, big corporate houses, or global production units are applying Six Sigma techniques to better their business processes, nowadays. However, a huge misconception that ‘Six Sigma methodology doesn’t work for startups’ spins around it. Well, the universal nature of Six Sigma techniques and their effectiveness in process optimization and quality control make them an indispensable tool for organizations of all sizes.
137. How to Become the Greatest Leader of All Time: Tom Brady Style
One of the essential qualities to Tom Brady’s game is his leadership skills to get the maximum talent and productivity out of his teams to become the GOAT.
138. The Importance of Building a Diverse, Well-Rounded Engineering Team
Every individual has strengths and weaknesses; it’s easy as a hiring manager to hire people who display similar strengths as yourself. That’s because these strengths are easier to identify since you have experience and interest in said area and more confidence in your evaluation. However, people like you may also have similar blindspots. These blindspots, amplified on a group of people, will become much more detrimental. As a manager, I would want to reduce the number of weak areas on my team.
139. The Leader's Anatomy: Essential Talents And Skills Of An Engineering Mastermind
Andrii Poddubnyi, an Engineering Director at Innovecs, shared his trajectory and important lessons and outlined the role of people in his career path.
140. Hacking Quarterly Performance Reviews
What ACTUALLY happens when your manager writes your quarterly performance review? Learn their tricks to get the promotion you deserve.
141. Advice for Founders During Uncertain Times
142. How to Connect With Your Remote Team
Nathan Barry goes over ways you can connect with your remote team.
143. 7 Leadership Issues Managers Face in 2022
In this story, we’ll be exploring 7 of the issues that may face business leaders in 2022 and how best they can manage them.
144. From Formula 1 to Tech Marketing: Taking the Middle Lane With Julien Sauvage
How to maximize execution by creating a people-first culture, building trust and psychological safety, and being a balanced leader.
145. Addressing Complexity: A Product Manager's Comprehensive Guide to the Double Diamond Framework
146. Tackling the Augean Stables of Customer Support: Our Success Story
How we managed to solve 1500 backlog tasks with the STATIK approach. The 6th Labor of Hercules by Social Discovery Group team.
147. Everything Wrong About Deno as a Runtime System for Enterprise Applications
Hey there! In this article, I'm sharing my thoughts about Deno as a bad runtime system for enterprise applications. At least for now.
148. Pro-Office Motivation: Does it Actually Work?
It is widely thought that a team member who works from home spends most of their time not working, watching Netflix, walking around, and only pretending.
149. 10 Hacks to Pitch Your Idea and Have Stakeholders Love It
These simple steps will help you to avoid common mistakes during a presentation, catch stakeholder's attention and receive the green light for your project.
150. Performance Appraisals Today Are Not Agile
We are in the age of the Agile revolution, even non-tech companies and non-tech departments are adopting agile practices and frameworks. The issue is that organizations are making these adoptions without changing the foundation that their companies are built on. One of these major pillars is performance appraisals and it is critical because it is very important to employees. We all want to do well, and get big bonuses, or even get that promotion that we have been working so hard towards. The issue is most companies do not have the Agile mindset and focus mainly on the individual and neglect the team aspect when it comes to performance. This directly hurts organizations that are looking to build mature Agile teams.
151. Selling Your Million-Dollar Idea to Management
The relevance and priority of a new idea to management depends heavily on how you package it. Here is a step-by-step guide to get them excited about your idea.
152. Technical Writing, Leadership and Management
Management and leadership in technical writing should not be either/or, and requires new perspectives on roles, hierarchy, vision and goals.
153. Redefining Software Engineer Levels: A Transparent Classification System for Your Company
Propose new names for software engineer levels using a transparent and standardized classification system
154. Management: 4 Top Skills and Tips for Better Communication & Influence
Today, I want to invite you to join me every week, right here on HackerHoon, for management tips. This is a simple article series, focused on great tactics...
155. The Startup Action Framework Explained
How to Take Your Startup from Foundation to Flourish
156. How To Use OKRs For Your High-Growth Startup
Airbyte, the open-source data integration platform, shares how they performed on their OKRs for Q1 2021, and what their new OKRs for Q2 2021 are.
157. Software Quality: The Top 10 metrics to build confidence
How do you measure quality in software engineering? I guess this is the question there will always be a debate on. There are so many approaches to this question that finding only one answer is just impossible. In this article, we will be listing the quality-related metrics that the top engineering teams have been keeping track of, and see when and how you should use them.
158. 20 Principles for Managers to Learn and Lead
Being a manager isn’t easy, and anyone who tells you otherwise ain’t doing their job.
159. Managing an Engineering Team: A Guide for Startups
How to build a proactive and happy engineering team? What should you know to manage and lead the team of engineers more effectively? Here we’re going to share the startup guide with the helpful tips to make you a better manager and leader.
160. Accelerating Development with Kotlin Multiplatform
Disclosure: Sam is Engineering Manager at Touchlab, a mobile innovation consultancy based in NYC with expertise in Kotlin Multiplatform.
161. Why Harvard Alumni Are Better Than You
Harvard dropout starts a company and raises 20 million dollars. I bet you heard this story so many times and you might feel intimidated by them. But what makes
162. Stop Treating Your Team Like Children
Patrick Campbell goes over why you shouldn't treat your team like children.
163. 3 Reasons Why Teams Fail
Misalignment of Vision
164. 6 Ways to Improve Inventory Management
A business's inventory is one of its most important and valuable assets. In this article, you will explore six ways to improve inventory management.
165. How to Identify if your Company is Undergoing Digital Transformation
The world of today requires trendy technology in order to beat the odds because of the competitive pressure existing among business organizations. This has made business people get out of their comfort zone to make sure they stay at the top. Giving the customers great products and services in an easy and satisfying way can only happen to businesses that are ready to undergo digital transformation.
166. The Crazy Tales of IP Geolocation in Real Life
A report on various dimensions of incidences involving IP Geolocation.
167. How to Take Advantage of Project Economy and the Rise of Project Managers
Project Economy is another new way people are learning to make money in the world buy working from one project to another, using their skills to add value.
168. Salesforce Sandbox Data Mask For Add-On Security And Sandbox Refresh Process
When it comes to data security, Salesforce sandbox Data Mask is a mighty tool, which is largely used by the Salesforce developer and admins lately.
169. How to Write Your Own User Manual: An Example to Get You Started
I’ve been a huge fan of the personal README (or user manual) ever since I first heard of the concept.
170. What Whiplash Teaches Us About the "Sink or Swim" Method in Engineering
I love movies - Particularly ones that can be referenced to bring a point home in a professional discussion. Such is the case with the movie “Whiplash” and the debate over the “sink or swim” methodology in engineer onboarding.
171. A Guide on Disaster Recovery for IT Systems
Modern organizations need complex IT infrastructures to provide goods and services at the expected levels. Any malfunctioning component can have damning effects
172. How To Say "No" At Work Without Sounding Like A Jerk
“No” is often equated with being mean but “no” isn’t about shutting projects and people down. Here's how to say no in a corporate setting without sounding rude.
173. How to Find a Great Mentor to Advance Faster in Your Career
If you are looking for opportunities to advance faster in your career, mentorship and executive sponsorship may be for you.
174. All you Need to Know About Building a B2B Product (Example Case Study Included)
Learn how B2B and SaaS product managers solve business users problems by building features for enterprise solutions
175. A Few Reasons Why Your Software Buddy System isn't Working
Mentorship requires at least 2 people. However, anyone who has ever queried information about software developer onboarding, could notice right away a strong focus on the onboardee. Most onboarding approaches are centered on guiding new hires through their first days, tasks or overcoming the hurdles of getting started. But this approach rarely highlights the troubles and challenges of the mentors*. We frequently hear about the “Sink or Swim” approach by which new engineers are “thrown into the deep end” with hands-on tasks on their first day in. The truth is, mentors are also treated this way, although unintentionally and with no buoy waiting for them.
176. 9 Questions Every Great Boss Should Answer
As a manager, without a system in place to measure yourself and actively monitor how you’re doing, you can't identify all the areas that you need to improve on.
177. Working With Files In Python
Most of us have had that one experience where we had a ton of dis-organized files in our machines. It happens. One minute, you're opening a large zip file, the next thing you know, the files are everywhere in the directory, mixing with all your important files and randomly placed leaving you with the task of manually sorting what needs to go where. It's a real pain. To ease this process, we're going to delve into file management with python the smart way.
178. 268 Stories To Learn About Project Management
Learn everything you need to know about Project Management via these 268 free HackerNoon stories.
179. Why Shielding Your Tech Team May Not Be the Optimal Leadership Approach
New managers often shield their teams from everything. Devs are happy and peacefully working in their cozy world. Everything is amazing! Or is it?
180. Quickly Onboard Employees Using a 30-60-90 Day Plan
The hiring managers goal for onboarding new employees is to get them productive as soon as possible, using a 30-60-90 day plan.
181. It's Time To Talk About Being A Jack Of All Trades in Software Development
The “jack of all trades, master of none” fallacy in software development suggests that it’s better to be a specialist. But being a jack-of-all-trades developer.
182. What is Hybrid Work and Why is it the New Norm?
The hybrid work model is appearing more and more often in companies' return-to-office plan. What is it and how do you prepare your team for this new norm?
183. 6 Tips for Tracking Software Licenses
If you are looking to manage your software licenses better, Read on to know how you can track and document software used in your company with ease.
184. Technical Debt Management Best Practices for Software Engineers
Technical debt exists on each project if it’s more than 1–3 months old. Having technical debt doesn’t necessarily mean that software engineers are not performing well. Technical debt can appear because of business pressure, lack of requirements, lack of interaction between team members etc. However, good software engineers know how to manage the technical debt and do that. Bad software engineers simply hide the tech debt from managers and customers, hoping that the project will be completed before it gets out of hand.
185. 327 Stories To Learn About Leadership
Learn everything you need to know about Leadership via these 327 free HackerNoon stories.
186. How to Be a Terrible Engineering Manager
One of the most common mistakes early managers make is to focus on being a "shit shield". Learn why this backfires, and what to do instead.
187. Product Expert Asit Kumar Sahoo on Driving Business Growth With Innovative Supply Chain Solutions
Product Expert Asit Kumar Sahoo on Driving Business Growth with Innovative Supply Chain Solutions
188. Developers Created a Culture of Shame and a Toxic Workplace
Open up Twitter or any dev forum really, have a little scroll, and it will not take you long at all to find developers being unpleasant to each other.
189. Implement This One Cultural Characteristic to Build A Healthy Codebase
It’s easy to pay lip service to company culture. But few companies actively consider those few cultural characteristics that make a meaningful difference to performance—because that’s the hard part.
190. Level Up Your Team: Proven Methods for Developing Software Engineers and Driving Results
High-performing teams proactively develop their engineers to address the team's skill gaps, using methods such as tutorials, mentorship and stretch assignments
191. 5 Handy Apps for Boosting Productivity During a Workation
Thousands have already tried workationing. So, here are the top 5 apps that help me stay as productive as possible while working and traveling.
192. Are You Contributing to a Toxic Work Environment Without Realizing It?
Some of the most toxic managers I have worked with had no clue they were contributing to a toxic work environment. Otherwise pleasant to talk to, these managers seemed to genuinely care about their people. However, what appeared on the outside was not in tune with what went inside their teams. Their good intentions didn’t always translate into the right action.
193. 8 Lessons Product Managers Need to Learn From Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen is one of the greatest business minds of our time. His recent passing caused me to reflect on all I learned from him. His life was dedicated to his family, his faith, and the theories he taught. He personified servant leadership.
194. Put Your Ego Aside: Humility and Confidence in Software Development
In this article, we explore the significance of managing egoism to foster a collaborative, innovative, and positive software development environment.
195. Move Business Logic out of Application Using Higson Engine
Well-written multitier applications consist of multiple layers. The most widespread three-tier architecture divides our code into a presentation, business and data access tiers. Like it or not, but the business layer is where we, developers, spend the most time on a daily basis. This is the place where all processes and decisions our application depends on take place. Therefore, requirements for the business layer change more often than in any other layer. What hurts us, developers, most is that with every change, even the smallest ones, we need to recompile and rebuild our app. It usually takes a piece of the valuable time that we could use for more interesting things. What if we could move a business logic out of our code and let non-technician people change it?
196. How Data-Driven Agile Helps Deliver Better Software Faster
What is Agile Data-Driven?
197. 10 Cognitive Biases in Crypto Investing — Cause, Impact and Mitigation
Most investors make the same mistakes that can be prevented. 10 Common cognitive biases, their causes, and their potential impact on cryptocurrency investors.
198. Avoiding Data-Tunnel-Vision and Achieving Human-Machine Symbiosis
We need to create human-machine teams that work together. The key to achieving that is recognizing that our we all suffer from data-tunnel-vision.
199. Elegance as a Law of Harmony: An Engineer’s View of Tech Business Growth and Management
Nataliia Zub shared her perspective about secure digital transformation, risk management in times of crisis, as well as Engineering Leadership as a mindset.
200. The Basics Of Getting A Job
Getting hired needs applicants to complete some steps; writing resume/CV, cover letter, popular interview questions, general interview advice, choosing a job.
201. The Irony of Pluralistic Ignorance: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
Pluralistic ignorance is a psychological state in which we believe that our private thoughts, and feelings, are different from those of others.
202. A Web3 Project’s Journey to Organizational Decentralization
A story of how we turned a regular company into a global network of professionals working toward a common goal -- and the lessons we learned along the way.
203. 5 Types of Business Owners: Which One are You?
The Founder Institute explored the characteristics of more than 30,000 business owners and categorized them into several groups.
204. Why Giving Employees the Right Tools Matters
Boost employee satisfaction and productivity with the right tools for the job. Learn how it benefits your company's success!
205. Have You Hacked Level 4 of Career Conversations Yet?
That's likely a question that you've never asked yourself, but as a manager, it's an important one. Career conversations are an important part of career development. We’re going to define 5 levels that will make it easier for you to have a better career conversation. Through self-reflection or 360 feedback, it should be relatively easy to know where you stand. You can then set the next highest level as a tangible goal to improve.
206. AI Usage for Online Reputation Management (ORM)
How AI can be utilized for online reputation management (ORM).
207. Everything You Need to Know about the Cynefin Framework
The Cynefin Framework helps leaders to make decisions in context, distinguishing different domains to match the reality before apply the right management tool.
208. How To Be Responsible For Your Own Growth
We all want to have a good relationship with our managers, work on impactful projects that help us advance our career, want to be highly regarded in our line of work and be trusted and respected by others. But, how often do we take charge of our own growth?
209. Ask These 5 Questions From Your Managers Every Month to 10X The Impact
The gap between how you view your behaviors and actions and how others perceive you is always huge.
210. Mission Statements, Business Storytelling and Jeff Bezos’s Day 1 Philosophy
A relatable and memorable business story will positively influence every organizational level, inspiring the right strategic actions.
211. We Need to Talk About Feature Flags in Release Management
Explore the pivotal role of feature flags in release management. Discover how feature flags can enhance control over the release process.
212. Your Employees are Not Mind Readers: How To Give an Effective Feedback as a Manager
When we think of giving feedback, we promptly think about correcting others. But giving feedback is as much about telling others what they are doing right as it is about telling them what they are doing wrong.
213. Founder’s Guide: How to Outsource Software Development in 2020
If you are running a startup or a tech business, outsourcing the execution of your product is a critical business decision. You can’t fail and there are many factors to consider to ensure you choose the right agency to outsource software development. This is part of the inherent risk whenever outsourcing anything that is not a commodity.
214. How To Deal With Difficult People
Humans are social creatures who seek personal validation based on how others interact with them. We feel good and important when others share our belief system and dejected when there’s a conflict of opinions.
215. Note Your Way to Intuition: A Guide for Managers
Discover how note-taking improves team management, boosts intuition, solves problems, and enhances productivity. Perfect for managers, developers, and project
216. 21 Traits in which Great Leadership is Defined
Leadership qualities like integrity, humility, focus, confidence, transparency, inspiration, passion, accountability, vision, innovation, patience, authenticity, open-mindedness, decisiveness, affectionate, generosity, persistence and insightfulness are beautiful words that look good on pictures and posters that adorn the wall of offices.
217. Essential Metrics to Evaluate After Your First Year in Business
Learn the key metrics to assess after your first year in business, including financial performance and customer satisfaction, to drive future growth.
218. How to Build and Grow a Professional Network
In the professional world, your network is your biggest asset in creating or securing those career opportunities.
219. An E-commerce Platform Charged Me for an Out-of-Stock Item and How it was Resolved
My crazy experience when buying products from a popular ecommerce platform.
220. Navigating Crisis: How to Equip Leaders for Unpredictable Challenges
Explore how organizations can prepare their leaders for crises, from global emergencies to local disruptions.
221. How to Give and Receive Feedback
Giving and receiving feedback is crucial to grow as a person, but it's not easy for everybody to take it. Here's an insight on the truth about feedback.
222. A Brief PSA for Programmers: On Managing Up
One of the things that all new managers who move from leading a team of engineers to leading managers have in common is, well, frustration.
223. If I Would Only Read 3 Books, It Would Be These
Here are the top 3 books that have become a smashing success not only for me but for the SupportYourApp book club as well.
224. 3 Must Have Practices for Distributed Developers
During the last several years working in the global corporate world I have come across a repeating challenge for distributed coders to efficiently work together as early as the beginning of their ramp up.
225. Hiring a Remote Candidate: 7 Signs You’ve Found The Right One
Getting and hiring the right remote worker can be a difficult task, for most businesses and organizations.
226. Become an Effective Open Source Maintainer
Tips on how to be an effective Contributor to Open Source.
227. How Product Manager Solve Complex Problems
228. These Errors in One-on-One Meetings are Hurting Your Team
One-on-one meetings go wrong not because of lack of effort. They go wrong when you don’t pay attention to the little things that are needed to get them right.
229. How to Manage and Motivate GEN Z
By knowing what motivates Gen Z employees, managers can better manage and retain this amazing young generation of talent.
230. What Leaders Can do to Encourage Learning and Development
An organization's success depends not only on current capabilities but on the team's ability to grow and adapt. And this is facilitated by its leaders.
231. Why Adaptive Risk Management Needs a Human Touch
The time to exploit a new vulnerability has dropped from 63 days to 5. Here is why fully automated risk management isn't the solution.
232. What is a DAO?
DAO stands for a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. The definition is right there in the name; it’s an internet-native organization where the management is decentralized, and the decisions are autonomous thanks to its programmed logic.
233. 4 Focus Areas for New Engineering Managers Who Give a D.A.M.N.
Management is just doing The D.A.M.N job: providing Direction; fostering Alignment; maintaining Motivation, and making sure there's No Blockers.
234. Applying First Principles Thinking to your Startup Idea to Enhance Impact
One thing that surprises me over and over is how many startup founders don’t use models and equations in their business. I always get strange looks when invariably I ask my favorite business questions: “So, what is the equation here? What variable are you hoping to affect by doing this?”
235. 10 Best Business Tips to Learn from Mom & Pop Stores
10 Important Psychology lessons from Mom and Pop Stores
236. Jargon Is Killing Your Leadership: You Should Be Doing This Instead
Effective communication as an engineering leader is about striking the right balance between clarity and engagement.
237. Beware That Ransomware Groups Can Operate as 'Legit' Businesses
Ransomware has become one of the greatest cyber threats facing organizations in 2022.
238. How To Create an Engaging and Collaborative Delivery Team For Your Business
Does your team feel its alignment with business where what it delivers solve business problems and achieve business desired outcome?
239. Meet The Entrepreneur: Dvir Ben Aroya, Co-Founder & CEO, Spike
Dvir has over 20 years of executive experience leading technology and internet companies.
240. Scaling the Dependency Autopilot; Balancing Autonomy and Collaboration
Whether you’re a founder, manager or employee, there are dynamics of dependency you’re dealing with that are worth being aware of.
241. Verification and Configuration Management for Avionics Systems
The performance of verification and configuration management is essential to the ARP4754A document and other avionics development documents. ARP4754A, officially titled Guidelines for Development of Civil Aircraft And Systems, is concerned with “the development of aircraft systems taking into account the overall aircraft operating environment and functions.”
242. First Principles Thinking: Identify Assumptions, Breakdown Problems and Create New Solutions
First principles thinking drives complex problem solving and workplace innovation through reverse engineering. Companies that employ first principles thinking are one step ahead as they plan and build for the future.
243. “Dulcedo is a people-first company and all about relationship-building.” says Karim Leduc, CEO
10 Questions with Dulcedo Management's CEO & Founder, Karim Leduc.
244. How to Calculate the ROI of Your Design System
Design systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses. Calculate the ROI of any design system with this ready-to-use formula.
245. Sharing Is Caring: How to Combat Cybersecurity
It’s hard for CEOs to manage the growing threat of cybersecurity across their businesses, especially considering more pressing company concerns. That’s why some forward-thinking business leaders are establishing frameworks for shared cybersecurity responsibility. In the article, Tamas Kadar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SEON talks about the operational benefits of adopting this approach.
246. Launching Your Own Startup? Make These Mistakes for Too Long And... Bammm!
tl;dr In this game of startups; some win, some lose.
247. Climbing the Ladder: Transition From Engineer To 'Leader'
How to transition from a software engineer to a manager and a leader of a team.
248. 84 Stories To Learn About Team Building
Learn everything you need to know about Team Building via these 84 free HackerNoon stories.
249. 10 Ideas To Make You A Better Product Manager
250. How to Break Bad News in the Workplace
Seven steps for planning, approaching and delivering bad news in the workplace
251. The Developer’s Guide to Being a Better Leader: Solution-ing is Contagious
252. What Do You Think Your Values Are?
Do You Know What Your Values Are?
253. Strategies to Improve Your Sprint Retrospectives with Data
Most agile teams do sprint retrospectives at least once a month, to iterate and improve on their software development process and workflow. However, a lot of those same teams rely only on their feelings to “know” if they have actually improved. But you need an unbiased reference system if you want to compare how two sprints went.
254. The Benefits of Marketing Automation
Given the breadth of applications for artificial intelligence in growth marketing, it’s essential to consider the benefits of leveraging marketing automation.
255. Covid-19: What Can Product Managers Do?
This blog post should not be considered authoritative in any way. It simply an imperfect attempt to highlight some guiding principles. I am convinced these guiding principles could be useful for you, your dear-ones and your team.
256. Subjectivism and Organizations: Part 2
It has been demonstrated throughout our history that an organized group of people can be more than the sum of its parts and can achieve more than a single human
257. Main 5 Uncommon Traits of a Product Manager Role
258. How Non-business, Creative Skills and Experience Can Help With Leadership
This is a story with examples of tech leadership skills which author learned in a creative, non-business environment.
259. How I got into programming and my thoughts on its future
Hey, I've been nominated for the Noonies 2022 and this is my interview to help you know more about me and how I worked to become an engineering manager
260. The Fail Fast Mindset: How to Help Your Team Fail and Be Resilient at Work
No strategy can help an organization thrive if the people in the organization aren’t resilient to change and chaos. Setbacks and challenging situations - a missed deadline, a lost deal, a failed project, a bad strategy - are everyday affairs at work, and only those who learn to get past them can grow professionally and personally.
261. A Culture Lesson From A Fuck Off Sign
Just around 2012 is when I received a lesson of a lifetime, to appreciate culture differences and how very deep they can get.
262. Learn How To Reset Team Productivity With These 5 Steps
Productivity is a volatile thing in the office. It comes and goes. Just like there are ups and downs in life, some days are more rewarding than others at the workplace too. There will be times when your team would get in a slump and you will have to jumpstart them back to life.
263. How to Wrangle Your Code Monkeys
Code monkeys are notoriously strong-willed, and can be particularly hard to break. Here, we’ll outline a few ways in which you can whip your code monkeys into shape.
First things first, don’t trust them as far as you can throw them. Code monkeys will go off on a lark at the first opportunity, not returning for days on end as you wonder what’s going on. Oftentimes, they’ll come back with some godawful interface for doing some obscure thing you don’t care about, something that has nothing to do with your bottom line.
264. The Noonification: Timing of TikToks New Feature Highly Suspicious 🤔🤔🤔 (8/3/2023)
8/3/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!
265. Why Are Bosses Against Remote Work?
72% of managers prefer their subordinates to be in the office. Why are bosses so against remote work? Find out what our readers think might be the issues here.
266. Time & Material vs. Cost Plus Pricing: Which is Better for Your Software Outsourcing Project?
Time & Material vs. Cost Plus Pricing: Which is Better for Your Software Outsourcing Project?
267. The Ways in Which Big Data can Transform Talent Management and Human Resources
Big Data is changing human resource management for good. We explore 4 major ways data analytics is upending & expanding the role of human resource departments.
268. From Mid to Senior: How to Navigate Through Office Politics
Master the art of navigating office politics as a senior developer. Learn to understand dynamics, build relationships, and advocate effectively.
269. The Parable of the Hole
You are the regional supervisor of ABC Co. and part of your job is to inspect different job sites.
270. Setting Product Goals & Metrics
Defining Product Goals and Metrics for Product Managers.
Solving Product Execution Problems and Cases for PM interviews.
271. 5 Ways And Resources to Get Into Product Management
What’s stopping you?
272. Mastering Process Documentation: The Ultimate Guide to Building a High-Performing Team
Ultimate guide to process documentation: improve team efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and streamline workflows with clear steps for managers and leaders
273. OKRs, KPIs and SMART Goals, OH MY!
Goal setting is one of the most important ways to foster growth, let’s look at some key concepts and frameworks.
274. 200+ Software Engineers Taught Me The Best Way To Manage Technical Debt
Over the last six months, I’ve learned how the best software engineers and leaders manage technical debt. I've interviewed more than 200 experts, to understand how tech debt is handled at growing software companies.
275. Leveraging AI to Enhance the Developer Experience (DX): A Guide
Discover how AI can significantly enhance the Developer Experience (DX), boosting productivity and innovation.
276. How to Stop the Meeting Madness When You Have Too Many Work Meetings
Work meetings are an obvious necessity for many reasons. However, these meetings can become overly frequent and pointless. How then can they be optimized?
277. How Does Self-Management Makes You a Better Crypto Investor ?
Master these Self-Management areas to become a better investor: Goals management | Time management | Energy management | Focus management | Emotional management
278. Software Engineer Performance Review are a Paradox
Performance reviews play a big role in the operation of the organization.
279. Two Conditions Where you Want To Have An Agile Project Manager
And their 4 areas of responsibility
280. Soft Skills: Why They Matter and How To Develop Them
Soft skills will help you become the life and the soul of the party and reach your career and professional goals
281. One Year Since Russia's War: How I Kept Running Business Through the Worst of TImes
It’s hard to believe, but it has already been a year since Russia attacked Ukraine without any provocation, rhyme, or reason.
282. Upskill Your Managers With Mini-M Support Groups
A Mini-M is a group of managers that meet weekly or biweekly. The meeting is a combination support group and working session.
283. HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our Management Community!
Explore HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of Management in 2024—top stories, standout writers, and the readers who shaped the discourse!
284. How to Cultivate Growth Mindset in the Workplace
I have worked with two different kinds of leaders and managers over the years. The one who believes in fixed abilities and promotes a fixed mindset “those who don’t perform well can never do better” and the other who believes in growing those abilities thereby promoting a growth mindset “people can be coached into improving their skills.”
285. Kevin Van Gundy Announces He's Stepping Down as COO of Vercel
Kevin Van Gundy announces he's leaving Vercel.
286. 8 Efficient Ways to Monitor Employee Productivity
Monitoring employees’ productivity is a key to success at any company, be it a startup or a huge enterprise. CEOs and HR Managers know how important employee tracking is. Some modern technology and classic proven methods will help you keep an eye on employees’ activity. Here’s the list of the best ways to keep track of your team’s productivity.
287. Working With Files In Python: Part 2
This is the second part of the series File management with python. We pick up from where we left last time Part 1, where we organized files according to the extension. So, let's get started.
288. Achieving Excellence With Less Stress: A Simple Guide to Success
Achieving excellence doesn't require subjecting yourself to constant stress. By adopting efficient practices, blending work and personal life, etc,,
289. What Characteristics does a Team Need to Get to the "Super Bowl" Level?
To be the best of the best, Super Bowl championship teams need an elite level of consistency, trust, a culture of success, goals, measurement, and rewards.
290. You Don't Reach Your Business Goals Because You Don't Have Any
291. What Does a "Head of Growth" Actually Do? 🤷🏻♀️
What does a "Head of Growth" even do? Some ruthless honesty about an extremely confusing profession.
292. Gen-Z: The Generation of Gamers
To reach Gen-Z, brands cannot ignore gaming as a channel. Some brands have already begun capitalizing on these platforms.
293. 20 Questions for Yearly Employee Reviews
After scouring the internet and tapping into whatever it is I've learned about building teams and leveling up the purpose of work, I came up with 20 questions for the Hacker Noon team to reflect on the year behind and improve for the year ahead. Maybe they can help your startup or team too? So, I'm publishing them here.
294. We bridged the gap between Slack and in-house management without paying the hefty cost
Originally published on melvinkoh.me
295. What Should You Ask Before Hiring Your Managed IT Service Provider?
In the 21st century, many companies are outsourcing their IT-related tasks.
296. The best HackerNoon stories you might have skipped 👀
HackerNoon's top stories of the week cover tech, startups, AI, gaming, and more. Want to make the next list? Start working on your next story!
297. Killing the Con Man: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome in Corporate Game
Impostor syndrome, that nagging feeling of inadequacy, affects many people in management and engineering leadership. It's time to leave the impostor behind!
298. 10 Common Product Management Mistakes that Could be Slowing Your Progress
We see hard-working product teams struggling all the time, even under the best of conditions. Often, it’s not due to a deficiency or lack of skill within the team. Rather, the team has fallen into one—or more—of the most common dysfunctions in product management.
299. The "Quiet Quitting" Driver Nobody Talks About: Why Your Performance Reviews Are Backfiring
Introducing an AI "Objectivity Engine" framework to remove bias from performance reviews, allowing managers to focus on coaching rather than report writing.
300. Your Value, Not Your Title
A tribe of Cannibals arrives at New York City.
301. Is Quick and Easy The Right Play in Business Growth?
The ultimate key to success is stupidity. This is not rational. This should not work. None of this should work, so you have to be dumb enough to keep doing it.
302. Success is Gratitude When You Wake Up and No Regrets Before You Sleep
Building a product that solved the enormous inefficiencies in digital advertising seemed like a win-win for everyone: consumers, marketers and publishers alike.
303. 11 Lessons I Learned From Transforming a Product Organization
Key takeaways from transforming a monolithic team into three autonomous squads and much more.
304. Skip-Level Meetings And How To Run Them
As a leader of an organisation, the question “what needs attention” was always top of my mind. I realised that without taking real inputs from people in the organisation, any decisions I make and the direction I provide will be nothing but my own biased view of what people want, not what they need.
305. My On Call Manifesto
This has been burning for a while.
306. Technical Debt: Where it Comes From and How to Manage it
Technical debt, approaches to its rapid repayment, and minimization on previous and current projects.
307. Good Managers Vs. Great Managers
One of the most important aspects of building great product organisations is to design a system where builders thrive. A group of well-organized, ambitious yet humble, smart folks is an unstoppable force.
308. Process Gates are the Hellish Spawn of Evil You Should Avoid - Here's Why
Process gates are a common leadership trap you may not even realize you’re making: adding steps that require someone to do something. They often backfire!
309. 20 Questions for Yearly Employee Reviews
After scouring the internet and tapping into whatever is I've learned about building teams and leveling up the purpose of work, I came up with 20 questions for the Hacker Noon team to reflect on the year behind and improve for the year ahead. Maybe they can help your startup or team too? So, I'm publishing them here.
310. How to Tame the 'Monkeys' Overrunning Your Management Time!
Managers are burdened with issues that should be handled by their subordinates. How to manage those 'monkeys'?
311. How to Deal with Office Politics: 5 Steps to Get Ahead without Playing Dirty
I learned the hard way that the secret to getting ahead is not just doing great work, it also requires the ability to navigate office politics, not in an insincere or manipulative way, but rather as a skill to better handle the politics that goes on inside your organization. You simply can’t win people based on logic and rationality.
312. How To Say 'No' To Your Team Without Seeming Insensitive
Learn the art of saying 'no' in a considerate and effective way, especially for leaders and managers.
313. Leadership in 2023: What Will Change?
This year, leaders are being tested — on our ability to adapt, grow, and develop despite the obstacles, inspire and lead people to meaningful goals.
314. How to Manage a Remote Team if You’ve Never Done It Before
Vita Baryshnikova is a Head of HR at Skyeng where 90% of employees and contractors work remotely. Vita shares her experience of creating effective processes for remote teams. These simple tips can help you prevent burnout and add transparency to your work.
315. The Simplest Way to Set Goals You Actually Achieve
Inspired by James Clear’s Goal Setting Method, Motion helps you set better goals using 4 main strategies.
316. In Conversation with Stewart Kohl on What He Looks For in an Investment
Stewart Kohl is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio with offices across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Riverside Company has more than $7 billion in assets under management and oversees a global portfolio of more than 80 companies. Prior to joining Riverside in 1993, Kohl served as vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital and COO of the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C
317. What Type Of Manager Are You?
While the change demands letting go of our existing identity and embracing new ones with openness, it’s our mindset that determines what we make of our mindset.
318. From Individual Contributor to Manager: Mastering the Shift with 12 Tips
This blog gives an insight on the challenges one may face while transitioning to the role of a manager and gives tips on tackling these challenges.
319. Can a Team Have 150 People on It? FAST Agile Says Yes
FAST agile is a novel agile variant that focuses on large teams and self-organization to achieve much better organizational scaling.
320. From Zero to Hero: Build a Team of High-Performers
Building a successful business is a challenging task. It takes dedication, hard work, and a team of individuals willing to work together to achieve a common goal. I always say this, but businesses don’t move people; people move businesses.
321. 15 Best Project Management Tools
Project management systems are supposed to make the life of teams easier and the work process faster and more efficient.
322. These 5 Things Will Kill Your Productivity
Being productive has turned into a cult. We are using it to assess the performance of others as well as our own.
323. How Shared State can Help Glue your Happy Brains Together
It's really hard to get people on the same page! The concepts of serialization and state will level up your ability to keep humans in sync smooth discussion.
324. Furkat Kasimov Unveils Business Secrets in Entrepreneurial Success through Upcoming Book
Don't Do This: A Guide to Business Survival offers a sobering look at what it takes to succeed in today's cutthroat business age.
325. "Everyone Will [Soon] Build Software With No Code" - Alex Omeyer
Alex Omeyer from the United States has been nominated for TWO 2020 Noonies in the Future Heroes and Development award categories. Without further ado, we present to you, this big techy world, from the perspective of Alex - right after this ad break:
326. The 15 Common Tips About Managing Newly Remote Teams
Remote work has become the most transformative labor trend of our lifetime. Long before ‘social distancing’ became a household term, businesses chose to operate with remote teams because of its benefits.
327. "Often times as a CEO you come to the conclusion that not sleeping is a good choice" - Jensen Huang
It creates more time when you dont sleep!
328. The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Strategy Session
Companies can run for many years without strategy sessions, and be fine. Yet if they start doing that – they will inevitably see greater success and growth and just overall business improvement. Albina Zhdanova, the COO of Tools for Brokers, shares their insights into organizing a productive strategy session.
329. From Mid to Senior: Tips on Leading Projects
Learn the path from a mid-level developer to a project leader: enhancing skills, leading a team, project execution, and fostering growth in a dynamic tech envir
330. How Adopting PaaS Will Shake Up Your Team
If your project is considering PaaS, then you may be worried about how this change might impact your team—and rightfully so. Switching to PaaS often results in major shifts in roles and responsibilities.
331. Top Management Tips for Startup Founders
Here are some top dos and don'ts for startup founders, alongside some management tips for startup founders from successful entrepreneurs.
332. Leaders Embody Values: Live By Your North Star
Have you ever heard of the north-star, it's consistently present in the sky of northern hemisphere and was the traditional way sailors aligned their course corrections at nighttime. Your company leadership provide your north-star (Values and Objectives) for aiding decision making. Mid level managers need to learn to balance the feedback from the teams with the direction of leadership.
333. A Dummy Guide to the Post-Corona Workplace: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Illustration by Mat Voyce
334. What Are The Responsibilities Of Software Development Manager?
The definition and content of activities of the software development manager can vary widely.
335. Lessons I Learnt From Becoming a CEO
As someone who’s been the CEO for years, I think I might be of some help here. Over these years, I saw hundreds of things not working out the way I initially planned but, knowing that I was in the middle of a process kept me going.
336. Virtual Brainstorming Success Guide
Intro
337. Building a Successful Business; It's Not All Sheets and Giggles
Before he realized what happened, the company was seeing seven figure sales monthly. Focusing on growth, profitability and investing in people have been keys...
338. How to Consistently Deliver Your Projects on Time: 5 Tips to Follow
The bread and butter of knowledge work is figuring out what needs to be done, in what order, and what can be cut.
339. Open Ended Questions to Ask to Go From Giving Advice To Gaining Insight
Have you noticed what happens when someone asks you a really good open ended question? Your mood shifts and body language changes as your mind sets on a quest to look within, think deeply, and churn out ideas. The endorphin rush that comes from exploring uncharted territories triggers a positive feeling in the body.
340. How To Embrace the Growth Mindset for Career Success
People with a growth mindset are constantly learning, refining their successes, and improving on their failures. The process is more important than the outcome.
341. 10 Skills You Need For Your Post-Pandemic Career
Ever since the pandemic began, and workforces went home for what turned out to be a long period of remote work (which has yet to fully end), we’ve been asking ourselves a lot of questions about the future of work. How are we adapting to this new environment? Do we need new skills? Will technology help us or hurt us over the long term? Is it OK to prioritise a healthier work-life balance when the world seems to be ending? What careers will be on the ascent when this is over, and which ones should be avoided?
342. Daily Standups Tools or Traditional Standups: The Final Verdict
The debate about the best way to run daily standups has plenty of nuance. I dig into the options we have for this agile ceremony.
343. Disconnect to Reconnect: The Counterproductive Culture of Constant Connectivity
Uncover the hidden costs of constant connectivity in the workplace and learn to regain control of your productivity and well-being.
344. Modern Approaches to Complex IT Development: Managing business requirements
Strategies for the seamless development process and business alignment
345. How to Hold on to Critical Knowledge When Employees Leave
If you do a good job as a leader, the people you mentor will eventually outgrow their original roles. Some will rise within their departments; others will go on to lead new teams. Many will go on to work for other businesses.
346. Same Product = Same Team: Myth or Fact?
The Scrum Guide is quite clear on one important thing: for one product there is only one Product Owner and only one Product Backlog:
347. Modern Approaches to Complex IT Development: Striking a Balance with Limited Resources
Mastering project management by embracing flexibility and data-driven approach
348. How to Build a Dream Team: Tips for CTO
Even though a group of individuals is called a team, they are not. People do not know exactly which direction they are going and may pursue different goals.
349. This is Why a Legit Performance Review in Tech 'Does Not Exist'
Performance reviews help ensure competitive compensation packages for specialists and keep them motivated. But it always gives managers headaches. Here’s why.
350. How Data-Driven Coaching Helps Employees Reach Their Potential
Data is everywhere. In the business world alone, we use it to track search engine traffic, monitor website activity, land sales, improve customer service.
351. What Can Flash Gordon Teach You About Sustained Business Growth?
With 283% growth over a three-year period, no one would be faulted in believing that Sashen’s theories and intuitions are at the heart of Xero Shoes' success.
352. DevOps Principles: Culture Vs. Tooling
One of the last questions asked in a DevOps interview is usually "so, what does DevOps mean to you?" I think this is a smart question, because DevOps is wildly misunderstood by the greater IT community. Some may answer that it's Continuous Integration and Releases, another may say it's having everything in Git, and the last might say that it's having tests available. All of these technical solutions do represent a key aspect of DevOps which is the tool chain, but it is the least important.
353. How To Handle the Shift to Remote Work as a First Time WFH Manager
Since this virus is so contagious that it spreads to other people by contact, the only way possible to curb its spread is to stay away from other people. To help you understand how dangerous this virus is, you need to have a look at Italy. Italy reported its 1st positive case on Feb 20 and till the date, it has One Hundred Four Thousand positive cases with more than Twenty Thousand deaths.
Understanding the severity of the situation, authorities have requested everyone to stay at their home and refrain from going outside. To promote this, companies have advised their employees to work from their home
Remote work (also called telework or telecommuting), has been growing in popularity over the past twenty years. Many organizations allow for flexible worksites on some level: employees work remotely for part of the week, as-needed for minor illness, or when school or childcare is unavailable. However, with a major health concern on the rise, companies of all sizes (including tech giants such as Twitter, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft) have transitioned some or all employees to remote work to keep business moving while limiting unnecessary exposure to COVID-19.
For modern tech companies like Amazon and Apple, the infrastructure and policy need for remote working are unquestionably already in place and the vast majority of staff members are probably already laptop users.
For smaller organizations, however, the situation is likely to be different. Remote working is limited to software development and marketing companies. The education sector is a good case in point: universities have been delivering distance learning as a feature for some time, while high schools and others are mainly dependent on staff and pupils being on-site to learn.
354. Planning Poker: Agile Estimation And Planning Made Easy
355. The Noonification: Tailwindcss? Ill Pass (8/27/2023)
8/27/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!
356. Why Some Companies Keep Changing — But Never Find Stability
Strategies shift frequently. Teams reorganize. Priorities are updated again before the previous ones have fully settled.
357. Exploring 'Create' and 'Deliver' Tools: The Ground-Breaking Digital Adoption Solution from Intellek
Intellek's DAP is a cutting-edge solution that helps businesses boost employee productivity, reduce training costs, and accelerate the adoption of new software.
358. I Was Wrong About Burnout and You are Probably Too
I vividly remember the day I read about Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. She had collapsed from sleep deprivation and exhaustion, hit her head on the corner of her desk, broke her cheekbone and woke up in a pool of blood. I read the story many years later after it happened while working for a fast-growth startup feeling tired and exhausted from the daily demands and expectations from the job. I was someone who always prioritized my mental health and while I knew that I was nowhere close to being burnt out, the story left me with a trembling sensation, a feeling of fear and anxiety in that moment.
359. How Do Salary and Job Satisfaction Influence Developer Burnout?
A developer with low salary and monotonous work is likely to end up burned out, it’s obvious. Yet what about overpaid workers with no relevant skills or experie
360. Moving From Gatekeepers To Super Gatekeepers: How We Ended Up Here
In a world driven by tech giants that locked-in digital distribution pipelines to reach billions of people across the globe, the gatekeeper hypothesis states that small businesses will need to pass through those nodes to reach key customers.
361. 4 Ways to Build Trust as a Leader
We have all had relationships that are built on trust and those that are not. If you look back to those experiences, you can clearly say that there’s a significant difference between them. Not only in the quality of your experiences, but also the outcomes you achieved.
362. Choosing Growth Over Titles
Choosing growth over titles: why I declined a managerial offer to stay in cybersecurity, pursuing growth, skills, and passion over titles.
363. Can You Still Phone It In? The Challenges of Managing Remote Workers
Explore adaptive leadership strategies to optimize productivity and manage remote and hybrid teams effectively in the evolving post-pandemic workplace.
364. To Assert Authority as a Young Manager, the Magic is in the Balance
Some discomfort is natural if you have recently moved from an individual contributor to a manager position.
365. Why is Employee Training and Development Crucial in 2022?
Every new year brings a shift in technology along with uncertainty about the future tech world. Keeping up with the changes calls for learning and development.
366. Rethinking the Hiring Process: How to to Stand Out and Delight Your Candidates
In this hiring climate, you need to differentiate to attract candidates.
367. Using Scientology's Quality Control Model for IT in the Company
The quality control department provides a window into a company's development and L' Ron Hubbard's Scientology framework is a useful model.
368. Increase Employee Performance with Dedicated Training Programs
There was a time when businesses relied on academic education systems to hire employees for different roles. After a basic orientation, any graduate would be considered employable and fit for the relevant roles.
369. Making Sense of Product Owner Effectiveness
Can anyone be a Product Owner (PO)? What’s the best position in the company to fill that role? With Scrum you have one and only one product owner for a given product – not a committee, but the effectiveness of the product owner will vary depending on the PO’s organizational enablement, understanding of the product, and involvement with the Scrum Team.
370. Leading With Vulnerability Will Make You A Better Leader
We feel vulnerable. But instead of embracing vulnerability, accepting our fears, and leading with curiosity, we put on a shield of protection.
371. A Guide to Career Promotions and the Peter Principle
Do we really consider promotion as an important decision of our life that requires careful evaluation aligned with our passions, interest levels and abilities? Is it even offered as a choice?
372. Skyeng’s In-house Services: Doing More With Less
How We Accomplish More While Working Less
373. The Difference Between Black Box and White Box Product Leadership
There is an inherent conflict between the product leader and the CEO, which can often be summarized into one question: who has the final say. To start resolving
374. 7 Steps to Improve Software Quality
Software bugs are called “bugs” for a reason: These pests have been around for a long time, they always turn up in code at the most inopportune times, and there’s no proven way to eradicate their existence.
375. Opinion: Duke Leto of Dune Sucks as a Business Leader
Duke Leto might have been your favorite fictional character, but I'm not sure that you would like and support him as your business leader.
376. Why You Should Manage WIP
Having too much Work in Process, also known as Work in Progress (WIP), is a remarkably common issue. In my experience, management often encourages this behavior. I don’t know if it is the notion that we will get more done if we work on more things simultaneously. Or perhaps there is a fear we won’t get enough things done unless we work on several of them at once.
377. How We Discussed Scrum Master Job Description
378. Understanding Startups Growth for Better Management
Once you begin your startup business, then comes the toughest part! To sustain and grow to a leading organization by managing the same with some brilliant ideas. Many of the leading management gurus have written a lot about how to achieve the same.
379. Controlled Experiments: The Safe Way to Use New Technology in IT
The "controllable experiment" strategy helps significantly mitigate the risks of using new technologies and unlocks the potential to use them often.
380. The 5 Ws of Exit Interviews and How To Conduct Them
Conducting exit interviews correctly and taking retention actions can have an impact on the organisations' happiness and bottom-line profitability.
381. How CodeClimate's VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level
But when Ale checked the team’s productivity metrics in Velocity, our engineering analytics platform, she was surprised by what she found. After we made the switch to a distributed workflow, many engineers actually started working more. Still, despite logging more time in the codebase, they were getting less done.
To find out why the team wasn’t making progress, Ale dug deeper into the data. Not only did she find answers, she used that information to develop better ways to support the team.
382. The Best Teams I've Worked With
The best teams: autonomy, customer focus & continuous improvement. Empowerment, minimal management, adaptability, and effective leadership.
383. 3 Ways to Become a Better Technical Writing Manager
In this story, we analyze what makes up the role of a technical writing manager, how to improve your skills, and how to be a brilliant leader.
384. Female Entrepreneurs Shattering Barriers in 2023
Female participation in business ecosystems worldwide continues to increase, especially when it comes to leadership positions.
385. Mentoring Juniors: Tips for Mid-Level to Senior Developers
Unlock the mentor in you as a mid-level developer. Learn effective strategies to guide junior developers, enhance your skills and foster teamwork.
386. How Leaders Inspire and Lead Remote Teams
Leading and motivating remote teams will be crucial to being a successful leader in this new hybrid world. Let’s explore how to be a good leader today.
387. Three Ways Virtual Reality Can Invigorate Boring Training Programs
388. Hiring Manager Perspective on Technology Interviews
Many candidates have never been in the interviewer chair I'm hoping to share a different perspective with candidates so they can prepare accordingly and it can act as a guide to hiring managers.
389. "Great managers are not philosophers, entertainers, doers, or artists. They are engineers."
10X developers are mythological creatures in the Startup world. I don’t really know if they exist but I can argue that 10X managers do!
390. 5 Reasons Why You Should NEVER Micromanage Your Team
Discover the negative impact of micromanagement on teams' trust, morale, and productivity.
391. How To Run Great Skip-Level Meetings For Interns
Setting up a skip level meeting for interns can be a great way to add value to the intern, their mentor, and the mentor’s manager.
392. A Brief Intro to HRMS Software
Finally, HRMS software is becoming more global. This means that it can be used to manage employees in different countries.
393. Three Practical Reasons Why Your Business Needs A Big Picture
The concept of the "big picture" often attracts attention, yet it's true functional potency frequently lies concealed beneath its glamorous facade.
394. How to Win as an Associate Software Engineer
Being a new engineer can be challenging, but you can rock the role if you know how. Hint: not deleting the production database helps.
395. 5 Business Lessons from IBM Surveyed CEOs for a Post-Pandemic World
After the uncertainty of the year 2020, we have to admit: the new order came up from the chaos, and as a result, the business priorities were reconfigured too.
396. Throwing Top Engineering Internship Myths out the Window
Internships are not about coffee runs, you can get a great experience that can make you stand out when applying for your first job out of University.
397. How to Scale Organization
398. Feel Comfortable Saying No - Even to Your Boss
Learn effective strategies for product leaders to navigate challenging conversations and say no to senior leaders while maintaining positive relationships.
399. This Secret Method Will Help You Become More Effective At Work
The 50/10 method is simple. It says work for fifty minutes; rest for ten minutes.
400. 6 Remote Productivity Tips for Team Work
At the moment due to coronavirus, all Skyeng teams work from home. For us, the shift to remote work was much easier than for many teams who are used to the office environment. At Skyeng, 90% of employees and contractors have been working remotely since their first day.
401. Beyond Numbers: Embracing Contextual Intelligence in Engineering Leadership
This article explores the gap between engineering teams and their leaders, highlighting the importance of cohesion and alignment
402. Side Projects: Yay or Nay?
I love to build stuff online, but do I have too many side projects?
403. Leaders Don’t Just Solve Problems; They Make Them Too
One of the key things that makes leaders effective is the ability to orient themselves. Leaders make their own problems. This post shares how to do that.
[404. Learn the Truth about Software Developers and
Dare to Change your Recruitment Strategy](https://hackernoon.com/learn-the-truth-about-software-developers-and-dare-to-change-your-recruitment-strategy)
You can hire the best of the best if you try to understand the current preferences of software developers and update their strategy. Let`s learn how!
405. How to Make Your 1–1s More Effectives
When working in an agile development team, having effective communication is essential. In times of remote working, where teams are distributed, it’s important to ensure that all people on the team are aligned with the goals, sharing knowledge and risks when necessary.
1–1 meetings are a great way to connect and bring people closer. To make these meetings more effective, consider doing them frequently and adapting it and its recurrence according to the participants’ perception.
406. 6 Ways to Increase Sales Metrics
Improving online sales metrics can be done through improving basic things such as scripts and by taking extra care over closing deals made by the sales team.
407. 10 Field Service Management Trends: 2021 Edition
As you attempt to derive growth strategies for your field service business, it is important to focus on the right things.
408. Gantt Charts Can Change your Understanding of Project Management
In this article we will talk about using Gantt charts for Project Management. How this tool functions, and outlines its main benefits and drawbacks.
409. Renovation Management Tips to Keep Your Project on Schedule
Renovation projects have a lot of moving parts that must work simultaneously. No wonder, large projects take 20% longer to finish than scheduled and are 80% over budget. From planning to budgeting to hiring to the actual remodeling, all processes have to be coordinated for the whole project to be completed.
410. 8 Steps for Crisis Management Plan
In the nearest future, worldwide economies will face one of the most powerful financial crises since 2008. There are a lot of reasons for it, but the root cause is coronavirus covid-19.
411. Emotionally Intelligent Entrepreneurs Should Have These Traits
Traits of an Emotionally Intelligent Entrepreneur
412. 7 Best Ways to Increase Workforce Productivity
2020 will go down in history as the year that turned the trend that was working from home into the norm for businesses across the globe. Everyone who can feasibly work from home is now doing so.
413. The Human Toll of Algorithmic Management: When Machines Manage
Letting AI lead workplaces has a human cost that cannot be ignored much longer.
414. When You Hire One Person, You're Actually Hiring Two: The Duality in Every Hire
Every time you make a new hire, you’re actually adding two people:
415. Internal Inspiration: The Counterforce to External Stimulation
Reflections on developing sustainable sources of inspiration for yourself and people around you.
416. Whoops, I Broke Prod: Learning From Failure From Mid-Level to Senior
Navigate the journey from mid-level to senior developer, exploring how to manage production errors, learn from mistakes, and foster growth.
417. 12 Tips to Help You Manage Your WFH Team
12 tips that help ensure that even when your team is working from home, they will still have the chance to grow and develop despite the lack of physical contact
418. The Journey Of The CTO (Podcast Transcript)
What's it like to be a CTO? 😱 Amy Tom talks to Ravi Mayuram, CTO of Couchbase, about the CTO mindset, Ravi's career journey to CTO, and skill trends in tech. Amy and Ravi talk about education, trends in data, building trust, and more.
419. Pavel Sikachev on How Big Companies Could Integrate Innovations
What is a secret sauce of innovation for big companies and how to integrate new techniques and solutions to outdated workflows?
420. Goodbye Middle-Managers, Hello Blockchain
“Robots are coming for our jobs” has become a popular refrain, and with good reason: <a href="http://fortune.com/2017/11/29/robots-automation-replace-jobs-mckinsey-report-800-million/" target="_blank">Fortune</a> estimates robots may steal as many as 800 million jobs in the next 13 years.
421. 8 Tips for CEOs When Teams Grow from 10 to 50+ People
When your company scales from 10 to 50+ employees, you have to change your leadership approaches. Here are 8 valuable tips referring to team management.
422. Alpha Engineers Build Through Rejection - A Week of Milestones and Mindset
A continuation of the Alpha Engineer's journey: Sometimes the most powerful lessons come not from acceptance, but from the clarity that rejection provides.
423. The Art of Effective Communication: Building Strong Client Rapport
In this article, Vladyslav Kopanko, VP Delivery Account Management at Innovecs, describes how to build strong client rapport
424. The Unsung Superpower for Product Managers in 2022
Whether you're managing stakeholders or just want to get a project out the door, good communication is essential to creating great products.
425. 5 Habits of High Performing Teams That You Should Consider
Building extraordinary workplaces with high-performing teams requires more than hiring the right talent and equipping them with the right opportunities.
426. How To Deal With A Micromanager The Right Way
Organisations spend a huge amount of time and resources to hire smart, talented and self-motivated individuals who show a strong passion and commitment towards their own growth and success of the organisation.
427. Successfully Change Collaborative Meetings With These Five Proven Methods of Facilitation
The five methods of facilitation I use to create collaborative meetings from over a decade of experience as a software engineering leader.
428. How To Manage A Small Project With 4-5 Peoples
429. 8 Things to Avoid as a Newly Remote Business
430. Five Undervalued Data Points for Emerging Businesses
Apparently, data has become more ubiquitous than the stars in the sky. In fact, the amount of data produced daily via the Internet is set to top 44 zettabytes. As you might assume, that’s more data than you could possibly fathom or use.
431. 8 Practical Ways to Become a Better Manager
In this article, you’ll find 8 proven ways to become a better manager.
432. Unlocking the Invaluable Role of Big Data in Modern Supply Chain Management
Let’s take a deeper look at the scale of impact the big data revolution can have for global supply chains and vendor management.
433. Scrum Vs. Waterfall: What is the Difference?
The software development market is gigantic and has a lot to offer us
434. Why Project Maintenance Should Not Be Done By A Separated Team
Suppose you have to add a new major feature to an app.
435. Mastering Workplace Communication: 4 Body Language Mistakes and How to Fix Them
We speak more through our bodies than our words. The posture we assume, expression on our face, hand gestures and our eye movement conveys far more than we would like to expose.
436. Brutal Facts: Most Artists Can't Draw
Roy Simmons coined that phrase and I like it a lot. “Most artists can’t draw.”
437. 10 Ways to Promote Wellness in the Workplace
I am sharing 10 practical ways to embrace mindfulness, focus on wellness, and maintain your mental well-being while in the office.
438. 5 Ways to Track and Optimize Your Team's Time
Why is time management important in a team?
439. Scrum Introduction: Agile Put Into Practice
In our previous blog post, we wrote about Agile, a philosophy for managing projects and teams. In that text, we mentioned Agile methods, one of them being Scrum.
440. Feeling Behind? 17 Lifehacks for Beating Chronic Laziness
Actionable solutions for beating laziness. These solutions will go way beyond the generic platitudes about hard work, motivation, and mindset.
441. The Most Productive Workers Spend 2H on Breaks Daily – That’s Equal to a 4-Day Workweek
A study found that most productive employees spend nearly 2 hours on breaks. That's equal to 4-day workweek. Can 'break culture' replace shortened workweek?
442. Fueling Success: Empowering Engineering Teams through Ownership and Accountability
This text discusses the importance of trust, ownership, and accountability in engineering teams and how they contribute to fostering growth and development.
443. An Effective Product Manager: The Visionary Of Multiple Responsibilities
PM is not just a very important person from the C-suite. They play a crucial role in the live cycle of any product of the company and they are really supposed to wear suits, but they don’t. Product managers are responsible not just for the technical side of the product, but of its heart and soul.
444. What it's Like Being an Early Career Product Manager
I have tried to share my thoughts and learnings below on what it’s like to shift your six-year data career to being an early career PM.
445. A Step-By-Step Guide on How to Hire Engineering Managers
A complete guide to hiring engineering managers, including how to identify what to interview for. Includes a full interview plan with interview questions.
446. Can This Ownership Exercise Improve Your Collaboration Habits
Use this easy exercise to figure out who is responsible for what. Handy for teams and individuals.
447. Indispensable Advice That Will Make Any PM A Guru In Staying Focused
How to tell between important and unimportant and don’t get lost in data smog.
448. Automating Task Estimating Process In JIRA
Planning means more than just “staying organized”
449. Deglorifying CEOs
Bright CEOs belong in the past. Web3 is talent-centric and doesn't need a "charismatic leader" to become successful. Well, are we right, or are we right?
450. The 3 Traits I Never Compromise On When Hiring a Dream Team
A strategic framework for hiring high-potential talent — even if they lack experience. Based on real-life practice, behavioral psychology, and experience.
451. 5 Tips To Help Your Employee Manage Their Work Effectively
452. 7 Proactive Steps to Lead High Performers to Excellence
High performers in any organisation aren’t easy to manage. With their uncanny ability to produce outstanding work and an appetite to solve tough problems, they demand even greater attention and engagement from their managers.
453. Tech Leaders Need First Principles Thinking Now More Than Ever
First principles thinking is breaking down complicated problems into their basic, underlying facts.
454. Leaders Embody Values: How to Become a Better Manager
Your company leadership provide your north-star (Values and Objectives) for aiding decision making. Midlevel managers need to learn to balance the feedback from the teams with the direction of leadership.
455. How To Transition to Remote Work
Companies transitioning to the work-from-home model became the recurring theme of the last month. I've spent more than half of the previous decade working in remote teams and have seen quite a few transitioning from the office to full-remote processes. Actively advocating remote work to everyone I know, I feel having to put a few cents into the tip jar.
456. If You're in a Mid-level to Senior Managerial Role, You Need to Master Effective Communication
Explore the role of communication in tech career growth. Master key skills to transition from mid to senior roles.
457. Startup Mantras (Not the "HBS" Kind)
I used to think mission statements were laughably gratuitous and "frou-frou". Over time I realized a good mantra can save your company.
458. How A Tech Sergeant Can Make An Impact In Your Business
Military minds understand their armies are really only as good as their sergeants. Sure an army needs officers, but often lower ranking officers are usually young and inexperienced. Though they outrank the sergeant, they lack the experience of real world execution. The sergeant, the non-commissioned officer, is also a leader of men. Their paths to this leadership position can be a much longer slog doing the same work as the mainline enlisted.
459. What is Reverse Mentoring?
Reverse mentoring occurs when young people become mentors of executives to guide them on various topics of strategic and cultural relevance.
460. 13 Simple Ways to Engage Your Employees
Just imagine that right at this moment your best employee is sending someone his CV or updating his profile on Upwork, or even worse, negotiating a time for an interview with your competitor. Would you like to know why? And how to deal with this?
461. Pro-Tip: Deliver Feedback as a Cop and Not as a Messenger
Annie leads the business operations platform engineering group within Square’s platform & infrastructure organization. Prior to Square, she worked at a number of startups across a spectrum of industries from consumer products to enterprise solutions, as well as a wide variety of teams from sales to engineering. Having worked with many different managers, she’s formed her own leadership philosophies.
462. The Best Leadership Advice? Don't Create Chaos
One of the most harmful behaviors I’ve observed in ineffective leadership is a tendency to add chaos when one enters a room. Chaos comes in many flavors: A decision was reached about an important architecture question weeks ago, but someone suddenly insists that you revisit the project’s fundamental goals at the 11th hour. An executive insists that their project is most important, and pushes it onto the roadmap. Or maybe you leave a productive meeting without concrete next steps, and are right back where you started in a week.
463. What to Do When Your Employees are Fighting in the Workplace
I have always enjoyed healthy disagreements about my own ideas and opinions at home and at work. They give me a peek into so many unique perspectives and help me see how different the world is around us. I do not agree with everything people say, but I am definitely open to hearing them around.
464. What I Learned Doing the "Eat the Frog" System for 6 Weeks
There is a lot of information about the "Eat the Frog" method, here is what I found after following it for 6 weeks.
465. The Noonification: Its Time to Ditch Be Yourself (3/25/2024)
3/25/2024: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!
466. Data Capitalism: Exploring the Information Ownership Landscape in the Age of AI
The shift towards ‘data capitalism’ is taking root, as the economic value of information escalates.
467. Tackling API Challenges Head-On: How DreamFactory Revolutionizes IT Workflows
DreamFactory's unique stance on API generation provides a beacon of hope for beleaguered IT teams.
468. Improve People Management With the Power of Artificial Intelligence
Ginni Rometty, the first female CEO of IBM, stated “Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us.” We couldn’t agree more with this statement given our mission is to enhance managers and their ability to lead teams through the insights provided by Peoplelogic.ai.
469. Creativity and Problem Solving is Required at Every Level
Many times, the best problem solvers in an organization never get a chance to contribute their creativity, so a lot of potential goes undiscovered.
470. Thoughts on Effective Digital Transformation Strategies
Why do so many digital transformation initiatives stall or fail? The answer might lie at the bottom of this iceberg…
471. Empowering Your Career through Continuous Learning
Unlock your growth potential in tech by embracing continuous learning. Discover its importance, tips for success, and top resources to stay updated.
472. A Guide to Mastering Successful Business Relationships
Entrepreneurship is an exciting journey, often made more rewarding with a business partner. However, the dynamics of a partnership can pose complex questions.
473. 4 Ways to Foster Your Leadership Skills
I have worked with some excellent managers, people who were not only good at what they did, but also had great leadership potential. Sadly though, these managers didn’t invest in their own growth. They were so busy attending to the daily demands of the management job - putting out fires, resolving production issues, solving for customer escalation, moving from one delivery timeline to another - that they failed to build the skills required to become a great leader some day.
474. Perseverance is Great, But Don’t Forget to Prepare
It is important to realize that we have the ability to manufacture our own fate when we want to. We can… proceed when things look bad, or we can find plenty of reasons to quit if we don’t want to go forward.
– Eric Haney, Inside Delta Force
475. 3 Easy And Powerful Link Building Strategies
When talking about marketing, link building is what that takes most of the time. And that's why the majority of small businesses struggle with building quality links.
476. Product Manager: The Visionary Of Multiple Responsibilities
PM is not just a very important person from the C-suite. They play a crucial role in the live cycle of any product of the company and they are really supposed to wear suits, but they don’t. Because product managers are responsible not just for the technical side of the product, but of its heart and soul. The main difference of PM from any management position is the necessity to be involved in the product creation directly. The manager is not about producing, but about understanding the techniques and showing the direction for all the teams, as the PM should have the final image of the product.
477. 4 Lessons For Ensuring That Your Remote Teams Devices Are Secure And Get Updated On Time
Working remotely is now standard practice at offices around the globe.
478. Basics Behind Building Remote Team
Many remote team management theories offer the following model structure. It starts with:
479. Featured Image for Technical Integration Blog Post Announcement
^^^ Photo Credit, The Office (the internet's most streamed show) ^^^
480. How to Create a Dream Team as a Lead Engineer Through Delegation, Automation and Motivation
I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I’m actually convinced I managed to create a dream team, the best one in my whole company. Read on to do it too.
481. What was the Product Masterclass by Product School all about?
482. Evidence-Based Management in Business: Will it make a difference?
Discover the benefits of evidence-based management in business, understand its impact, challenges, and how to transition to evidence-based decision-making.
483. 3 Ways Team-Love Impacts the Bottomline and How to Cultivate It
These little-known, scientifically proven customer retention strategies ALWAYS work.
484. 17 Skills Improve Managerial Communication in The Workplace
In this article, you’ll discover why communication is a critical skill for a manager and seventeen skills to improve communication at work
485. Handling Remote Team Personality Clashes: Think Like a Shrink
To handle a remote team, you have to understand different personalities.
486. Why Do I Want To Become A Manager
Every person at some point in their career may need to ask themselves “Do I really want to be a manager?” The question may seem straightforward, but the answer is not. It requires digging deeper and finding answers for ourselves without relying on what others believe is the right thing for us to do.
487. How to Cultivate Confident Humility for Better Leadership
How do I balance myself on the confidence humility see-saw? What if my confidence is seen as arrogance or my humility as a sign of my lack of assertiveness. How do I come across right?
488. How the Noonies is Like the Dundies [or at least I told my team that]
Managing people, meh. Building teams, now that's fun. It is really interesting to think about how individuals can make others better.
489. 6 Tips for Working With Analysts and Data Engineers
What work does a data engineer actually do? Let me tell you one thing: it’s not what you think they should be doing, especially not the part where they are running around collecting data for you or building yet another one of those dashboards that will only be used for a few weeks.
490. Unleashing Leadership Potential in the Digital Era: Embracing Technology for Business Growth
This comprehensive article has provided insights, practical solutions, and real-world examples tailored to the needs of emerging leaders across industries.
491. Thriving in Tech: Embracing Innovation in the Digital Age
Discover how tech organizations thrive by prioritizing principles, trust, innovation, and learning in the dynamic digital landscape. Adapt or fade.
492. A Simple Guide To Creating Your First Mind Map
Mind mapping is a diagram that helps you organize your thoughts. Mind maps can be used for brainstorming, studying, planning, and writing.
493. Leadership Lessons by Disney Chairman Robert Iger
Robert Iger, now Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company is the former CEO of Disney. During his 15 years as CEO of Disney and as President of ABC Television prior to that, he led the company to amazing new heights. Under his leadership, Disney’s market capitalization increased from $48 billion to $257 billion. He oversaw the acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Marvel entertainment in 2009 and many more after that. He is the perfect exemplar of a leader who has proved himself over an extended period of time.
494. Best Practices in Account Management for Key Clients in 2022: New Year, Stronger Partnerships
Key Account Management is a strategy to help you serve your most important clients.
495. On Team Empowerment: Can You Release Control?
How can we transform from the command and control style to leveraging the power of self-direction that energises and engages people?
496. How To Manage Your Business During Pandemic
497. 4 Ways You Are Probably Doing Product Analytics Wrong
An article that I read recently stated that 41% of businesses struggle to turn data into decisions. This got me thinking about my own experience with product analytics.
498. How to Start with Autotests
This article is about the approach one could take to ensure the autotests initiative is not rejected.
499. How To Set Up A Home Office
The rise of flexible job roles, digital tech careers and more freelance opportunities around the world has led more people into working from the comfort of their home, especially during this Covid19 pandemic. However, in order to get the best and ensure quality service deliveries, remote workers need the right tools to assist their craft.
500. Why Managers Should Understand How Developers Work
As managers, we easily get frustrated with developers. Maybe they can't build a certain feature; or a bug fix you deemed critical to your business is too far down the backlog for comfort.
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