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Ghost Engineers: What is Productivity?
Coding © 2024 James Leonardo. All Rights Reserved. PF Videotext Font by Panos Vassiliou Look! Yet another study about developer productivity! This time, it is a Twitter post made by a Stanford researcher who claims 9.5% of software engineers do almost nothing and are “Ghost Engineers.” In this post, I consider a couple of my own development anecdotes in light of this and the experience gained examining productivity within various teams over the years. The long and short of it: looking at code is not a valuable measure of individual productivity and individual productivity should not be what we are measuring anyway.
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AI Generated Programming Language Experiment
Coding © 2024 James Leonardo. All Rights Reserved. PF Videotext Font by Panos Vassiliou While messing around a little bit with prompts in Bing Copilot, I asked it to create a programming language that was easy to code and hard to debug. What did I get? The results were surprisingly unsurprising.
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Thoughts: Developer Lead Resumes
Photo by Van Tay Media (https://unsplash.com/@vantaymedia) on Unsplash. Thought: If you’ve got a position listed on your resume that says “Software Development Team Lead”, the description of the role should start out with things you did as a leader.
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Becoming a Manager Part 6 - Conducting Video Interviews
Photo by Bram Naus (https://unsplash.com/@bramnaus) on Unsplash. This year my focus is on collecting my thoughts on being a manager. A large part of that is hiring your team, so we’re in a series on the hiring process. This time, a couple of notes on conducting a video interview.
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Becoming a Manager Part 5 - Getting Ready for Interviews - Part 2
Photo by Bram Naus (https://unsplash.com/@bramnaus) on Unsplash. This year my focus is on collecting my thoughts on being a manager. A large part of that is hiring your team, so we’re in a series on the hiring process. Posts so far include creating job postings, reviewing the resumes you receive, and the first part of getting ready for interviews. In this post, I share more thoughts about getting ready for the interview.
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