People and Teams
People and Teams
People and Teams Stories
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Finding the Right People to Manage Your ProgrammersManagers are often the ones responsible for removing impediments, but finding people who are good at managing programmers is difficult. Steve Berczuk explores why quality engineering managers are hard to come by. | 
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How Well Are You Managing Your Workday?How well are you managing your professional day? Once you manage your professional day efficiently, your personal day should fall into place. There are many available tips to manage one’s time, but they can easily get overwhelming. It's better to keep goals simple and start with a list. Read on. | 
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If Failing Fast Is Good, Why Aren’t Mistakes Rewarded?Most literature about innovation tells us that making mistakes is fundamental to creative thinking. With so much focus on experimentation and failing, why is making mistakes still looked down on in most organizations? To answer this question, Anuj Magazine looks at what mistakes really are. | 
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Why Companies Need to Be Cautious When Using Social MediaWith social media comes great responsibility and danger lurking with every post or tweet. In this story, Joe Townsend takes a look at that aspect of social media—when good tweets or posts go bad. In this ever-connected world, companies and individuals run the risk of things running amok. | 
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Mind the Gender Gap: Getting Women into Computer Science CareersToday, just a quarter of all Americans in computer-related occupations are women. Why is this field with such a promising outlook attracting so few female candidates? This story takes a look at what's deterring women and why it's important for everyone that they be represented in the tech workforce. | 
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What’s Next? Teach Your Preschooler to Code!The teach-kids-to-code movement appears to be gaining traction. Now preschoolers can become one of the cool kids and learn coding concepts in a fun way—without sitting in front of a screen. A board game that promises to “teach your kids to code before they learn to read” is being released soon. | 
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How to Minimize Obsessive ThoughtsOnce you start obsessing over something, it can block out all other thoughts. Such obsessions are often about understandable worries, like whether you’ll meet the upcoming deadline or how you’ll cope with your new and fearsome boss. Follow this advice to quiet the thoughts you can't help thinking. | 
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Is Your Team Healthy? These Are the Questions to AskA healthy team is characterized by trust, respect, openness, honesty, empathy, and flexibility. When your team is not healthy, you're met with closed minds, domination, selfishness, negativity, personal criticism, and stubbornness. How can you ensure a healthy team? Ask yourselves these questions. |
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