How to improve developer productivity [Storytime Saturdays]
4 core Principles to help your developers hit better performance.
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On Saturdays, I will cover stories/writeups covering various people’s experiences 📚📚. These stories will help you learn from the mistakes and successes of others. These stories will cover various topics like Leadership, Productivity, and Personal/Professional Development. Use these to zoom ahead on your goals 🚀🚀
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Back to the topic at hand. I get a lot of requests from people who are struggling to take their engineering/their teams to the next level. Luckily the internet is a treasure trove of great resources and amongst them is Chris Laffra, whose job at Google was to make their engineers more productive.
While at Google, Chris worked on social graph analysis techniques to improve internal tools used by Googlers. This gave him great insight into what makes top-tier developers and what differentiates high-performing teams. In this article/post, I will be covering some lessons that I found most insightful/impactful from his appearance on the phenomenal Beyond Coding podcast. If you’re a podcast person, would highly recommend subscribing to Beyond Coding. I have no affiliation with them, but their content is top-tier.
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