6 Minute Software Development: Recent Episodes
Josh Hornby
Welcome to 6 Minute Software Development. If you are a software developer or tech leader looking for quick tactics on how to improve your day-to-day job performance, this is the podcast for you. New episodes every Wednesday.
Topics:
- What is a Product Minded Engineer
- Highlight some of their key traits
- How can you become more of a product minded engineer?
- Gergely Orosz - The Product-Minded Software Engineer
About the host:
I'm Josh Hornby, a software developer from Manchester, England. I enjoy building software and managing development teams. With nearly a decade of software development experience, I understand the connections between strategy, development teams, and business goals.
I'm currently the Head of Development at a car finance startup based in the UK.
Links:
- Monday Memo Newsletter - Every Monday I send out a newsletter containing some thoughts, life lessons and interesting content I discovered on the internet that week. No matter what, I promise that each edition will be fresh and worthy of your attention.
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- Or over on LinkedIn where I post often frequently.
Topics:
- First impressions count, you should aim to impress candidates at all stages of the application process
- Should you be paid for time spend working on tech tasks?
- The structure of a good job advert
- Share real examples of the work you can be expected to do at the company, list recent projects the team has worked on
- Basecamp always post great job descriptions, this one is no different.
About the host:
I'm Josh Hornby, a software developer from Manchester, England. I enjoy building software and managing development teams. With nearly a decade of software development experience, I understand the connections between strategy, development teams, and business goals.
I'm currently the Head of Development at a car finance startup based in the UK.
Links:
- Monday Memo Newsletter - Every Monday I send out a newsletter containing some thoughts, life lessons and interesting content I discovered on the internet that week. No matter what, I promise that each edition will be fresh and worthy of your attention.
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- Or over on LinkedIn where I post often frequently.
Show Notes:
Questions I use to measure the health of a development team:
- Does the team use source control?
- Is code peer reviewed?
- Can you make a build in 1 step?
- Do you make a build every time a change is merged?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you write tests to verify a bug before fixing the bug?
- Is the code coverage greater than 80%?
- Do you have an issue tracking system?
- Does your team have the best tools?
- Do you have automated unit, integration and system tests?
- Are the unit tests automatically run before a change is merged?
- Are the integration and systems tests automatically run before you deploy/release?
- Do you deploy/ship the artefacts that were tested?
- Do you have a prioritised record of your technical debt?
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.
Show Notes:
- View the blog post which inspired this article
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.
Show Notes:
- Buy "An Elegant Puzzle" on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3sWx7aT
- Some great resources on Will's blog
- First 90 Days as CTO - https://lethain.com/first-ninety-days-cto-vpe/
- Model -> Document -> Share -https://lethain.com/model-document-share/
- 11 take aways from An Elegant Puzzle - https://twitter.com/joshua_hornby/status/1347865100242350081
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.
Show Notes:
- You can find my thoughts on managing software projects on my blog
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.
Show Notes:
- Buy "The Manager's Path" on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3syl1V3
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.
Show Notes:
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.
Show Notes:
- Find me on Twitter - @joshua_hornby
- If you like the show then you'll enjoy my monthly newsletter, it contains lots of interesting stuff related to software engineering & tech leadership.