84 Stories To Learn About Team Building

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1. COVID-19 Layoff Letter Sample

Many employers have been asking me what they should write to their employee's during this hard time. I have to had to create a sample template that can be customized by both the employer type and the situation at hand.

2. 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.

3. Without a Stick and a Carrot: Three Life Hacks for Managing a Team

It's becoming increasingly important to keep your team motivated without using a "carrot and stick" approach.

4. The Developer’s Guide to Being a Better Leader: Solution-ing is Contagious

More often than not, developers and architects spend a large portion of their time in solving problems. The complexity involved in finding a solution varies from problem-to-problem and is directly proportionate to the individual’s or team’s ability in finding the solution. As a lead, architect or a senior architect, we need to instill the culture of solution-ing in our team.

5. Fun at Work Matters: Building a Company Culture

Having non-productive fun with colleagues at work is a great way of relaxing during work and getting to know the team.

6. My Top Three Priorities as a Software Development Manager

I wasn’t a big fan of managers in my decade long programming career. I took pride in my accomplishments as a developer, the individual contributor. After all, I was the one making things happen or part of the team that made things happen. We built features, fixed critical issues and in my view, only reason business existed was because developers worked hard.

7. Chatbots Are NOT a Replacement for Human Agents: Here’s Why

Nothing excites business owners more than the opportunities to cut cost. So it’s no surprise that in the era of chatbots, many customer service organizations are jumping at the opportunity to show human agents the door.

8. How To Build Your Startup Team

Every tech company either big or small tries to find the right team for their tech startup since it is the most crucial thing for their success. Bringing the best tech builders can make a major impact in achieving the company’s goal. Failure in this can bring skyrocketing debt, failure in launching products hence will lead the company to face serious dysfunctions. It is a major strategic decision for any tech organization. So, while choosing them the following things should be considered

9. What Rowing For The U.S. National Team And Building A Startup Have In Common

Saying “it’s not fair” won’t get you there. To be the best, you have to beat everyone.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. How To Build An Open Source Community: Sustaining Changes and Growth Plans

Perhaps one of the most memorable milestones in the scientific community this year was the release of the first image of a black hole. Like most technological advancements these days, this was made possible in no small part by open source software.

13. Do You Know Brook’s Law?

Hello again, By reading the title you might have thought I’ll be explaining about some algorithm/tool but for a change let’s talk about project management and how adding a new person(at a specific time) into the project could be dangerous and what to avoid. Let’s get straight into the topic of Brook’s law.

14. How Product Manager Solve Complex Problems

Excellent problem-solving skill is very essential for a Product Manager, because in the real day to day as a Product Manager will face a lot of complex problems that require deeply thinking for finding the root cause of problems, not only user’s problems but also internal problems such as slow development process, increase growth rate, increase retention rate, etc.

15. Human Resources Management Software Business Research [Part 2]

Hi there! My name is Vitalii Berdichevskyi, I’m a Product Manager. In a previous essay of the series I shared with you Performance Management Software industry research. In this essay I will share with you HR Management Software business research.

16. 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:

17. Humor at the Heart

Sharing some fun times at a cool place to work for body, soul and sanity.

18. 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?

19. Who Should Be Awarded Employee Of The Month?

There is a sense of joy when you walk past your picture hanging next to the wording 'employee of the month'. But how do you go from being an ordinary employee to the month's best?

20. 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.

21. Your Developer is not a Single Point of Failure

During my years as a coder, business analyst and technology consultant, I have heard many a manager or business owner complain about their on-staff developer. I have even sometimes heard them referred to as a “single point of failure.” At that moment, I know that I am entering a political minefield. My years of experience alert me to the fact that if someone in power thinks their developer is a single point of failure, then most likely the developer is not being properly managed.

22. 5 Tips To Help Your Employee Manage Their Work Effectively

"Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients and your business." – Richard Branson

23. How We Discussed Scrum Master Job Description

24. Top 4 Soft Skills Every New Engineer Should Learn

Engineers must have a combination of both technical skills and soft skills. Here are the top 5 soft skills for engineers.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. Team-Building for Success: How to Build Effective and Empowered Teams

The team is the most important aspect of any business, and determines its success. Let's look into how productivity and employee happiness can be encouraged.

28. 5 Ways Engineering Managers Can Motivate Individual Contributors

Want to inspire and motivate your individual contributors? Try setting clear goals and expectations, providing ongoing feedback and support, encouraging career

29. 11 Zoom Apps to Make Meetings More Efficient

While the basic features of Zoom are more than enough for the average team, there are a bunch of extra resources and ways to improve your Zoom experience.

30. 5 Reasons Your Team Needs an Online Whiteboard

Are you using online whiteboards? Here are five reasons why you should and how they can positively affect your business.

31. Tinder for Hackathon Teams

For those of you who are Tinder users or just watchful to the tech news, you should know that the App is offering the option to match with anyone in the entire world, helping people to have virtual dates during this time of pandemic crisis.

32. Shippable Stories

I occasionally (and usually accidentally) find myself in a discussion about whether or not every story should be a shippable increment of work. Recently, I got involved (deliberately) in the discussion when I was invited to answer the question, “...should a user story correspond to a potentially shippable product increment?” on Quora.

33. Headcount Planning? Here are 4 Tips for Choosing Job Levels

Here are tips for choosing job levels when headcount planning.

34. How To Ensure That Your Team Is Happy With Remote Work?

A month ago saying that running a company through the crisis caused by this pandemic has been hard would be an understatement. I’m sure this has been unchartered territory for most of us. I mean, most workplaces don’t even have work from home policies that they had to design from scratch.

35. 8 Tips To Reinvent Your Project Meetings And Win

In a typical project meeting most attendees do not contribute but attend just to hear the conversation. A large amount of developer time is wasted. This drains resources from the project and can create a scheduling nightmare.

36. The Three Elements of an Effective Game Development Team

The process of composing a development team can look a lot like starting a fighting game where you choose characters to fight your battles. Here are many tips

37. From 0 to 60 Mph: How to Structure a High-Performance Software Development Team

Do you want to learn how to structure a high-performance software development team? This article will teach you everything you need to know.

38. The Most Effective Way to Onboard a New Developer on Your Team

A new employee’s career at your company can be determined, to a reasonable extent, by how well their onboarding goes.

39. Office Politics in Tech

“I’m going to do a boss move,” announced my manager, almost like she was going to step out for lunch. “Let’s discuss more in our meeting later.”

40. How to Prevent Churn: 8 Crucial Tips for First-Time Managers

Useful tips on how to properly manage a team, for first time managers as well as, managers working with a new company or organization.

41. Remote Work Playbook: Best Practices To Follow

Although WFH is now the new normal because of COVID, managing a remote startup presents unique challenges. As first-time founders of a fully-distributed team, this is the advice and playbook we wish we read when we started out on this journey.

42. A Letter to Tech Recruiters

As a software engineer with more than 15 years of experience, a LinkedIn and Stackoverflow profile, I got my fair share of interaction with recruiters. Some were spot-on with the relaxed to the point attitude that gets an engineer’s attention.

43. Working Together: How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate While Building Products

The success of your website or app strongly depends on the cooperation between the designers and the developers. It’s not about the professional skills of either group. You get a competent designer to make you a beautiful layout which you then pass on to an equally professional and experienced developer. Suddenly it turns out it can’t be realized without major changes!

44. Internapp Introduction: Africa's first Time-Bound Staffing Application

As the novel Covid19 rages on deconstructing business systems and structures in its wake, companies and organizations have taken to their shelters administering pay cuts and orchestrating massive retrenchment in order to meet up demands of current reality.

45. 3 Things Great Engineering Managers Do

As all Spider-Man comic book fans know, with great power comes great responsibility, and being a great manager isn't just about being good at telling people what to do. It turns out that effective engineering managers aren't mind-bending wizards — they're just good at a few things. Here's a few of them:

46. Secrets Your Parents Never Told You About Creating High-Performing Teams

How can teams perform at their full potential?

47. Top Guiding Principles on Growing your Startup

You have a talented team, and your teammates both embrace your vision and are helping you shape a matching culture. Congratulations as these are two big ‘wins’ that many investors will rank above opportunity size.

48. 5 Tips Every Recruiter Should Know Before Hiring Software Developers

Software development can be a complex area that can sometimes confuse even the best of us. While many equate it to writing code, software development includes much more activity and responsibility. There are numerous roles and methodologies that can impact almost every aspect of the business, from customer experience to revenue flow.

49. Some Tips On Holding a Productive Virtual Offsite

Offsites are a big part of remote teams. They allow everyone to socialize, connect more deeply with coworkers, and help build shared experiences and empathy. Even if video calls are a great tool to share information, they can be tiring. It's too easy to miss non-verbal cues. Chance encounters over coffee never happen, and we don’t always experience the same personal connections that come from small-talk. That’s the downside of remote work, and that's why meeting a few times a year is a great way to fill the gap!

50. Secrets of Effective Collaboration With a Remote Team

Alexey Kataev, Head of Development at Skyeng, talks about running an efficient remote development team.

51. Tips for Becoming a Software Engineer: Hands-on Experience

It is impossible for a trainee software developer to become a trustworthy professional in just one year. However, your first year in programming may bring you many valuable lessons and insights. What to expect if you are starting your way in programming? What tips does a novice developer hear from senior colleagues every day? That’s what we’ll talk about here.

52. Why Team Building Matters - Winning Over Sceptics

Team building is not popular. One survey found 31% of workers dislike team-building activities. Perhaps many have been scarred by the forced fun of clumsy corporate team building events. But there’s real value there to be unlocked. How well a team communicates can be more important than how skilled its members are.

53. Team Building Activities In The Workplace Help To Establish Trust

Let’s take a look at some benefits of team building activities and games at the workplace.

54. Fostering Innovation in Modern Security Teams

Organizations of all sizes treat data security and regulatory compliance like a roadblock instead of a design consideration. Over the last ten years, I have worked with scores of organizations to modernize and improve their software and data practices. Information security is a challenging position, as it is the job of security professionals to prevent companies from making changes that could seriously damage reputation and revenue or breach compliance and incur significant penalties. There are two general archetypes of security teams that I have interfaced with:

55. How to Lead Distributed Teams

4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations

56. Be The Person Who Lifts Your Team Up, Please

I always ask myself this question — What is a good developer?

57. What Is Blind Hiring And How To Use It To Make Your Hiring Process Unbiased

Blind hiring is a process that aims to reduce hiring bias and improve company diversity, which leads to increased productivity and employee engagement. To help

58. HackerNoon and the Time We Took the 16 Personalities Test

A simple test can help you learn so much about your team...and yourself.

59. How and When to Find Your Dream Team

How and When To Find Your Dream Team

60. Team Building Mental Models

By Stefan Wolpers, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org

61. Two Conditions Where you Want To Have An Agile Project Manager

And their 4 areas of responsibility

62. How Collaborative Learning Can Help You Achieve Better Results

Collaborative learning is an approach based on the teamwork of the employees' group to achieve a joint purpose. Such an approach allows one to learn from the experience of others, helps to generate more ideas, as well as establishes a solid rapport within a company.

63. 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.

64. How to Build High-Performing Product Teams

A product team is the backbone of any company with a digital offering. They're responsible for constructing goods or a service that not only provides value to users but is also a reflection of the organization they work for. Product teams spin many plates at once, spanning duties from product management, product marketing, user experience, and product analytics. In the below article, we talk through the 4 characteristics that make up a high-performing product team.

65. How Leveraging the Change Curve Supports Organizational Change

Implementing change in any organization is a task of herculean proportions. But in this guide we explain how to manage change through the Kubler Ross method.

66. Becoming a Manager of Engineers: How to Focus on Visibility and Predictability

Becoming a manager is usually one of the biggest challenges of an engineer’s career. We are usually used to algorithms and state machines, which are predictable and have specific outputs depending on the input.

67. 10 Team Building Activities to Boost the Morale of Your Remote Teams

Use these virtual team-building activities and icebreakers to connect with your team better and conduct effective remote meetings.

68. How to Start a SaaS Business When You’ve Never Met Your Cofounder

The most fundamental core of any business relationship is trust. Traditionally this was built through multiple interactions, which included at least one face to face meeting.

69. Main 5 Uncommon Traits of a Product Manager Role

Believe most of us are already aware of what is expected of a Product Manager profile in any internet company, starting from being a mini CEO of the product to be the interface between business, UX & technology. Here in addition to those common attributes of a PM profile I am going to point out few not so common traits but important qualities a Product Manager should possess.

70. Why My New Book is a Failed Attempt at Something I Can’t Put My Finger On

On June 30th, 2020 my new book, The Humility Imperative — Effective Leadership in an Era of Arrogance — will be released.

71. Society 5.0 - Ecosystem Tech Uni

5.0 puts people at the center

72. 7 Basic Rules for Better Decision-Making in Business

Every manager has to undertake a tricky task of teaching employees to make the right decisions, the ones that will be profitable for the business. As my team was growing, I also came to realize I had to delegate responsibility. I don’t like to be micromanaged — so I don’t micromanage my team. My job is to lead people, not to be a bottleneck. I was lucky that Skyeng is all about principle-based decision-making; this is what makes an annual growth of 200% possible. I only had to take those corporate principles, or rules, and apply them to my field of commercial products. I’ll talk about my rules in this article.

73. Your Management Superpower is Listening

You’re a manager and you want to add value. You want to help your team perform better and love their job at the same time. What can you do?

74. How to Build a Startup? CTO, Freelancers, Agency?

You have a brilliant idea, but you have no idea how to build a startup. And you can’t code. You have 4 options:

75. The Outstanding Developer Book: Distractions Around Us And Developer Productivity

Think about a normal day of work. You arrive at the office, take a coffee, start coding, do some code review, have lunch, some meetings, code again, and that’s it. But is it really?

76. ‘Ford Vs. Ferrari’: A Film About Product Leadership Lessons

Sharing my observation from watching Ford Vs Ferrari, how a Ford sports car team wins a 24 hours long car race and their journey to build solid product.

77. The Phases of Project Management

The moment you become a part of the corporate world, the term you get most familiar with is 'Project'. We can say that projects are the elementary part of the corporate world.

78. How to Harness Diversity & Distance: 5 Tips for Strong Remote Dev Teams

This article outlines the five factors most critical to the success of remote, diverse development teams. Each factor is both a challenge and an opportunity for developers and leaders.

79. COVID-19 Layoffs and Terminations In California

The coronavirus pandemic is creating unprecedented challenges, both for public health and the economy — and those challenges are causing many businesses to lay off their employees and shutter their doors, at least for the time being.

80. To Remote Work or Not to Remote Work: That is the Question

COVID-19 made sure that even the staunchest opposition to remote working saw flames this year. It was a question of: Either you offer your team a chance to work from home or say goodbye to your small and medium enterprise.

81. How Can a Small IT Company Implement Corporate Training by Its Own Efforts: A Testers' Case Study

We tried to carry out corporate training for a long time, but all our attempts were a one-time story. We couldn't manage to "churn out" our lectures.

82. 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.

83. Ultimate Guide To Effective Team Collaboration

If you struggle with team collaboration, then this article will show you how to use 8 powerful team collaboration strategies to put your team on the same page.

84. 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.

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