Not as Productive as Others?
Highly effective colleagues are invaluable for keeping oneself sharp. But what if it works the other way around and makes you lose heart?
Evgenii Ponomarev
Who Influences Your Working Pace?
Types of people we may unknowingly use as pacers to adjust own behaviour. If you know them, you can control this effect and even change how you affect others.
Pacers – driving force of teams
Introducing the concept of pacers – people who can impact the performance of teams and companies by just speeding up or slowing down.
Authors, Don't Drive Pair Code Reviews!
Although I'm not a big fan of reviewing code together with the person who wrote it, this approach has some benefits.
Most importantly, it significantly shortens feedback loops which sometimes can last for hours and even days:
This would be very easy to avoid if both the author and reviewer
Four streams of defects for prioritising bugfixes
How urgent is it to fix bugs?
The question may sound ridiculous, but the answer isn't straightforward. Well, it depends on a bug, isn't it?
How to Choose Side Projects That Won't Burn You Out
Do you have side projects? If not, you probably should think about it – they can be helpful in the long term.
But I'd suggest being mindful when you're starting one – otherwise, it can cause unpleasant and unnecessary headache, as it did for me many times. But how can we avoid
How Bob used implementation details in tests
Is it okay to use implementation details in tests? And if not, why so?