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How (not) to play nice with others. Or how to get things done instead of have meetings about why you can't. Or I'm just complaining because I tried and it didn't work.

Named Things
Engineering

Named Things

This is a cautionary tale. It's the story of an internal tool development project. We'll call it Astro, because naming things is hard, and the reasons why are very instructive.

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
9 min read
Interviewing Software Engineers
Interviewing

Interviewing Software Engineers

Artificial white board programming tests are the wrong thing, but they're easy to assign. Doing the right thing is going to be harder. So what we really need to do is identify what we're looking for in a programmer

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
11 min read
Questions for your interviewer
Interviewing

Questions for your interviewer

As a candidate, interviews are your chance to learn how the team works, and how the company views and treats their employees. But after enduring your own interview, it's hard to know what to ask or how to evaluate the answers. This should help.

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
7 min read
Measuring Risk
Process

Measuring Risk

A while back, I was in a planning meeting where a whole development organization was trying to squeeze a huge and non-negotiable volume of work into a predetermined and non-negotiable release schedule. It

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
4 min read
Software Engineer
Process

Software Engineer

I am a software engineer. What I'm not is a programmer, or a developer, or a coder, or a ninja. Simply writing code is the easiest part of developing software. Anyone can write

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
2 min read
Culture

Some things I DO miss about big companies

I previously discussed some things about working in a large organization that I was happy to be rid of. This is the other side of that coin. These things are by no means

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
2 min read
Process

A Bug's Life

I've written before about useful metrics for software development organizations, and it's past time for another. The metric I'm proposing now, I call "A Bug's Life". Because who doesn't like Pixar?

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
3 min read
Process

A Note on the Daily Standup

Apparently, (scrum) standup meetings are broken. It seems that way at least, because making suggestions for how to fix them seems to be a seminal favorite topic in programmer blogs; so it must

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
3 min read
Process

Software development metrics

Software development is a skill. And for the moment, I mean that in an institutional sense. It's a skill the organization has. It's something that an organization can be good at. And it's

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
3 min read
Process

(How to) Be Solution Oriented

There's a piece of advice I've often heard regarding being successful in your job. Actually there are a lot, but the one I'm think of is that you should not bring problems to

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
3 min read
Testing

Software Engineer in Test

Update: I'm actually a Sofware Engineer now. But everything else holds up. I'm a software engineer, working mostly to support testing other software. I don't work at Google, but if I did, my

  • Jennifer Moore
    Jennifer Moore
3 min read
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