A book about practicing empathy in software development, by @CoralineAda and @Naomi_Freeman. Read a preview chapter:
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I blogged about this a while ago and just grabbed it to send to a friend!! cate.blog/2018/01/30/managin… – at Iceland
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Identify the type of leader they are can help you present info to them in a way they will absorb it best - do they make decisions based on data, visuals, or intuition? Using the right tools you can let them know your vision for yourself and how they can help
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Joint efforts: shipping stuff, but also leveling up you, leveling up your manager (it cuts both ways!), leveling up your colleagues, your org. All sorts of things. Identify what you’re both aiming to do and make plans.
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We tend to view “managing up” as a coping mechanism for management failure. Rather we should view the IC-Manager relationship as the partnership it is. We have strengths and weaknesses; so do they. Identify them - together! - and see how to move forward effectively.
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Stole this from I think @dtrenz — Use the 🍰 emoji to mark optional or “hey did you think of this?” comments. Separates the stuff that will hold up a pull request from the stuff that would polish it, and can keep a review with a lot of comments from feeling overwhelming.
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I've found pair-programming quite successful. For me, as having someone working with me (however little they may know about the problem) boosts me up. And the reports are that peers learned a lot, even in a "junior navigator" role.
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Often our disabilities lead us to cognitive issues, even if the root problem is not a cognitive one. Imposter syndrome gets intense. Trying to stay focused, feel successful, feel like you're contributing: IMHO pairing + fast feedback tactics are significant factors
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Pivotal has been tackling this, I self identify as disabled (through chronic pain) and my colleagues have been terrific. Some folks have posted about it, such as: link.medium.com/YBRj1SM2IS
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I dont have any resources, but one of my coworkers is legally blind, but uses Zoomtext to program. We have a pretty cool understanding where he will make one screen normal size for me, and then use zoomtext on the other screen of what I am looking at. We get along pretty well.
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After my experience I think there's benefit to pp, more than just code quality as it helps devs gain experience across multiple code streams and subject areas, but these benefits are far greater if the dev teams are in-house rather than outsourced
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At @pivotallabs, our pairing stations always include a keyboard for each person. We use a variety of paradigms, “ping-pong” perhaps being the most popular.
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We do a lot of pairing (engineering) and I find it really useful. when I first started at my company, pairing was absolutely amazing for learning new language & tools - it really supercharged learning speed bc I got detailed answers to new concepts (vs googling "clojure ->>"!)
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Happy to share the first guest post on my blog "Letters to a New Developer" from @noel_worden .
"Don't be afraid to ask questions." letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2… /cc @CodeCompassion @sehurlburt
CompassionateCoder retweeted
I am for "Let me be the person who can teach that".
I like to hear new questions.
