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How to Become a More Productive Software Engineer (Productivity Tips & Workflows)

Planio

So how can you become a more productive software engineer? Develop feedback loops to know what work brings the biggest results. Learn to work with your body’s natural ebbs and flows of energy. Here’s how to answer each: Develop feedback loops to know what work brings the biggest results. Let’s dive in and find out!

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5 Steps to Get the (Right) Software Engineering Job on a Top Technical Team

Planio

So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? Self-taught vs. school: Do top tech teams really care?

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Team workload management: How to avoid your team feeling overwhelmed

Planio

Define your scope, break it down into manageable tasks, and assign them to your team. How do you engage and get the most out of your underperformers? So, what’s the secret to maintaining your heavy workload without your team feeling overwhelmed? Team vs. personal workload management. Workload management.

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Face It: Silos Exist. Here’s How to Make the Most of Them

LiquidPlanner

There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. Imagine you’re running a sales team. The capabilities of each product.

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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers. But getting them to join your team is a skill on its own.

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Balanced Professional Interest

Leading Agile

In working with technical people at the individual and team levels, I often find attitudes that pull toward one extreme or the other: Either our work is inherently uninteresting, and we’re only in it for the paycheck; or our work is a boundless source of joy, learning, and achievement through which we can transcend the human condition.

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3 Steps to Minimize Workplace Distraction And Take Back Control of your Focus

Planio

Out of the nearly 90,000 people who took StackOverflow’s latest developer survey , the majority said the greatest challenge to their productivity is a distracting work environment. Batch your communication time (and set clear expectations with your team). Follow your body’s natural flow of energy and take more breaks.