MELP #9: Developer Productivity, Unconscious Biases, and more
Every Friday, Sky Chin curates the best content on people, technology, and personal growth in engineering management for your weekly newsletter. Read the latest issue online and recommend it to your teammates for a lively discussion.
This Week’s Favourite
Technical Debt Cripples Productivity
Developers lose an average of 23% of their time due to the technical debts, according to the recent study.
People
The Importance of Mastering Context in Effective Leadership
Have you ever in the situation that one project has many code names? Duo Plan, Buy One Free One, and Buy One Get One are the code names for the same project, in my case. Everytime when I heard each of them in different occasions, I had to clarify. Those are noise. We, as engineering managers, are required to reduce the noise.
Personal Growth
Common unconscious biases in performance reviews – and how to address them
Gretchen Scott, co-founder of Kaleida, cover some common unconscious biases in performance reviews and some thoughts on how to overcome them.
This Week on LinkedIn
Have fun reading!
— Sky Chin