10x matters because of the Economics of Superstars
In software, the superstar is the team, not the individual
A bunch of 10x people != A 10x team
How to Think About Building a 10x Team
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Focus on building 10x teams
December 23, 2011
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Don’t Send That Email. Pick up the Phone! – HBR
November 26, 2011
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Email and text often promote reactive responses, as opposed to progress and action to move forward. Email prolongs debate.
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BugHerd | The world’s simplest bug tracker
November 26, 2011
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Bug tracking doesn’t get any easier than this. Tag, describe & assign issues in less than 10 seconds
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Github Flow
September 19, 2011
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1. Anything in the master branch is deployable2. To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes)3. Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server4. When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request5. After someone else has reviewed and signed off on the feature, you can merge it into master6. Once it is merged and pushed to ‘master’, you can and should deploy immediately
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activeweb – a framework for building web applications in Java
August 14, 2011
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Convention over configuration,Highest degree of developer productivity,Adherence to Java standards
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The top 9+7 things every programmer or architect should know – Java Code Geeks
July 14, 2011
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1. “You don’t have to make every module perfect before you check it in. You simply have to make it a little bit better than when you checked it out.”
2. “The bottom line is that beautiful code is simple code.”
3. Step Back and Automate, Automate, Automate – Cay Horstmann
4. Continuous Learning – Clint Shank
5. Check Your Code First Before Looking to Blame Others – Allan Kelly
6. Hard Work Does Not Pay Off – Olve Maudal
7. Comment Only What the Code Cannot Say – Kevlin Henney
8. Know Your IDE – Heinz Kabutz
9. Learn to Estimate – Giovanni Asproni
1. Understand The Business Domain – Mark Richards
2. Before anything, an architect is a developer – Mike Brown
3. Find and retain passionate problem solvers, Give developers autonomy, Empower developers
4. It’s never too early to think about performance – Rebecca Parsons
5. Record your rationale – Timothy High
6. Stand Up! – Udi Dahan
7. Great software is not built, it is grown – Bill de hora
(Full Story: The top 9+7 things every programmer or architect should know – Java Code Geeks)
minutes · minutes.io
May 25, 2011
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A better UI version of minimtg.com
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Employees who aren’t tied to the office put in more time on the job – TNW Shareables
May 25, 2011
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These findings show that contrary to popular belief, employees who are tied to the office put in less time on the job. The mobile workers actually work, on average, 240 hours more per year than a regular stuck-in-the-office employee according to technology blog GigaOm.
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Employees Spend Half Their Time on E-Mail
March 8, 2011
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Wondering exactly what your employees are doing all day? Well, at least half their time is spent on e-mail.
Workers in small and medium-sized businesses spend half the work day on “necessary, yet unproductive tasks, including routine communications and filtering incoming information and correspondence,” says a report from telephony company Fonality and research firm Webtorials. (No word, though, on how much of that e-mail is personal.)
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How to Be a Better IT Manager
January 6, 2011
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Hire WellGet Out of Their WayRun InterferenceHold Them ResponsibleListen Ask Stupid Questions
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