Let's learn about Teamwork via these 164 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology.
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1. Deep Dive into Big Tech Design: Experimenting Your Way to Great Products
Insights from working with major tech companies on collaborative design, user-centricity, and experimental methods.
2. Facilitating Team Development in a High-Pressure Environment
Understanding the specific challenges and opportunities that arise when molding a team in high-pressure environments.
3. How a Program Manager Can Estimate Items Too Early To Be Estimated
How to estimate work efforts that are not well-defined yet, but the business needs them.
4. Personal Insights: From Tech Expert to Team Leader, Navigating Managerial and Product Challenges
A tech expert evolving into a leader, managing managerial, product, and technical challenges - strategic decisions drive success in software development
5. Why It is Important to Monitor Code Quality
Code is a book and what the reader gets out of this book will depend on how the code is written.
6. 5 Most Impactful Reasons Why Remote Teams Fall Apart
Why does remote work succeed in some teams yet fails in others? We will attempt to answer this question by examining why remote teams fail to begin with.
7. How Bad Managers Work: 9 Signs of a Terrible Manager
If you have worked long enough, chances are you have encountered a bad manager yourself. What was it about them that irked you the most - were they unforgiving, critical, demanding, abusive, aggressive, neglectful, grumpy, lousy or plain inept? Was it their attention seeking behaviour, attitude to blame and insult others, inability to trust or lack of integrity that caused you the most mental agony.
8. Making the Most of 1-on-1 Meetings
Easy-to-follow guide on effective 1-on-1 meetings, that will lead your team to honest feedback culture and greater transparency.
9. Leadership Challenges in Multicultural Design Teams
Working in a multicultural design team can be an exciting opportunity to gain different perspectives and ideas and experience different cultures
10. What Makes You a Great Programmer on The Team?
Majority of software developers are aspired to be not only a competent professional but also a great one.
11. The Ultimate Guide to a Great Engineering Culture
Advice on building a great engineering culture from some of the best and brightest in the industry.
12. Every Team is Made Up of These 4 Personality Types
The PDIG framework covers the way people work together.
13. Working at MANGA Company: Dos and Don'ts of Success
What have I learned after 3 years working at one of the most desired companies for a software engineer
14. How to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Collaborative Work
New in office? Learn about the necessary skills required for effective teamwork, collaboration and develop interpersonal skills and excel in the workplace.
15. What You Should Know Before Using the RACI Matrix: Benefits and Lessons Learned From Mistakes
RACI is a framework that helps to clarify who does what in a project.
16. Coda vs Notion: Which Should You Use?
Here's an unbiased comparison between Coda and Notion to help you make the best decision.
17. 122 Stories To Learn About Teamwork
Learn everything you need to know about Teamwork via these 122 free HackerNoon stories.
18. What it's Like to Work with a Really Terrible Developer
If you’ve never had this experience you have my envy. You’re on a development team and one of the developers does sloppy work and there is nothing you can do about it.
19. A Manual For Leading Scrum Teams To Maturity
If teams are not disciplined about the process, or not technically mature enough to actually deliver the work committed to a sprint, scrum processes are bound to fail.
20. What is the Best Advice for First-Time Managers?
Learning to lead and manage teams are essential skills for anyone looking to advance their career.
21. 7 Questions To Help You Find Out If Your Team Feels Psychologically Safe
Does your team have psychological safety? This may be a much more important question than you think. It may seem unintuitive but safety is a critical ingredient to unlocking your team's potential. Google certainly believes so, and Amy Edmondson at Harvard Business School agrees.
22. Understanding the Tuckman Model of Team Development
Psychologist Bruce Tuckman described how teams move through stages known as forming, storming, norming, and performing, and adjourning.
23. How to Use Story Mapping to Define MVP Requirements and Align Teams
Over the course of my career, I have had the pleasure of building multiple products from scratch, and have collected some strategies that help the process of building a new product and lead to a highly productive and streamlined experience for all stakeholders involved. Story mapping is one of those.
24. 5 Rules for Effective Team Management in Post-covid Times
The following 5 rules of effective team management help develop our business not only in post-COVID times but in times of war in Ukraine as well.
25. 7 Tips to Succeed in a Company as a Newbie
What can you do to stand out as a new employee in an organization.
26. How To Set and Track KPI Targets
A Key Performance Indicator, also known as KPI, is a value that can be estimated or measured, which shows the effectiveness of your business in meeting and exceeding its key objectives.
27. Lessons From GitLab—A $1 Billion Business With 700 Remote Employees
A lot has changed since I shared my last article related on COVID-19 (the most recent strain of coronavirus), and how AI and Blockchain professionals and industry experts are tackling the crisis.
28. How To Keep the Spirit of Teamwork During the #Coronavirus Outbreak
The shock-wave caused by a coronavirus has already rolled around the globe several times. Today's businesses feel the growing anxiety and concerns about how it will impact all the processes.
29. How to Lose Employee Trust in 8 Easy Steps
Speak at length about the importance of a healthy work-life, but then send emails late in the night
30. Who Are You Writing That Code For Anyway?
31. Teamwork and Collaboration: The Beauty of Being Replaceable
Through teamwork and collaboration, you can make yourself replaceable. This ensures the project stays stable and has benefits for you and for the team.
32. How to Become the Greatest Leader of All Time: Tom Brady Style
One of the essential qualities to Tom Brady’s game is his leadership skills to get the maximum talent and productivity out of his teams to become the GOAT.
33. Detailed PMO Time Management Guide: Practical Productivity Hacks
This is a short guide from the Head of Project Management at Techstack, detailing practical steps for managing your time effectively.
34. The Quintessential Work of Remote Developers
Building and supporting software does not require you to be in the office every day. Companies like GitLab, Digital Ocean, CircleCI, InVision, and Stripe have realized that remote work gives them a recruiting and productivity advantage over the competition.
35. HackerNoon and the Time We Took the 16 Personalities Test
A simple test can help you learn so much about your team...and yourself.
36. How AI and Blockchain Startups Are Contributing to The Fight Against #Coronavirus
The new decade began with an unprecedented number of natural disasters, including Puerto Rico Earthquakes, Yemen Humanitarian Crisis, Australian Bushfires, Floods in Indonesia, the outbreak of coronavirus, and others.
37. Keeping Our Ducks Aligned With Slack
A lot of remote teams start using Slack as a watering hole for getting everyone together to discuss what's going on and what'll happen next. Having all of these discussions happening in the #general channel is way too noisy. So teams start creating a bunch of random channels devoted to a specific purpose. Here are some of the channels we have at Hacker Noon.
38. Why Does 'Startup Vision' Matter So Much?
There are hundreds of things that could possibly go wrong when you start your own thing. It surely is in the startup stage right now, but there is a clear difference between it growing big and dying out after a year. That difference is - The Vision.
39. 7 Most Valuable Soft Skills Of Exceptional Software Engineers
When we think about software engineering, we tend to think about the technical skill set of the professional first. And this makes sense because the skill set defines the quality of work that the software engineer can perform-and make no mistake, quality comes above everything in software development.
40. Why Shielding Your Tech Team May Not Be the Optimal Leadership Approach
New managers often shield their teams from everything. Devs are happy and peacefully working in their cozy world. Everything is amazing! Or is it?
41. Talking to a Developer [Part 1]
Approaching a developer in the wild might seem intimidating. We have a bad habit of mixing words and phrases into our vocabulary that make us sound like Geordi La Forge geeking out on how warp engines function.
42. Pass On with Care: How to Hand Over Your Work Before You Quit or Go on Holiday
When go on vacation or quit, you should ideally organize your work in a way that those who stay at work do not get lost in chaos. Here is a checklist for you
43. New To Working From Home due to COVID-19? Here's How To Prepare
COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many people to work from home. How do I remain productive at home?
44. How to Build a Great Team
Marc Randolph goes over the importance of building a great team.
45. I Didn’t Learn Leadership in a Book — I Lived It
An honest, personal reflection on leadership in software teams—covering trust, culture, remote work, and how real leadership starts by showing up.
46. Navigating the Software Development Jungle: Spotting Toxic Work Environments
Navigating a toxic work environment in software development often feels like you're wading through muddy waters.
47. Think of Your Startup as an Ecosystem
👆Photo by Markus Spiske
48. Daily Standup Meeting Is Wasting Your Time
49. How to Hack Your Team: Top 5 Tools For Team Management Automation in 2021
Wondering how to increase your remote team's productivity? These tools will help.
50. Restcaperoom is an Interactive Exercise for Programmer Interviews
When you are looking to hire skilled programmers, how do you know if the person you are interviewing indeed has the capabilities he or she is talking about? Well, just let them show you!
51. Ask These 5 Questions From Your Managers Every Month to 10X The Impact
The gap between how you view your behaviors and actions and how others perceive you is always huge.
52. Tech Enablement in Management Consulting: Best Practices and Common Mistakes
Historically, management consulting companies have relied primarily on human capital to solve complex business challenges of their clients.
53. The 6 Principles of Planning Development and Testing Workload
In this article I’d like to introduce 6 principles of workload planning for development & testing teams to create comfortable workflows & deliver top results
54. Online Hackathon to Make the Web More Fun for the Billions Stuck at Home
If nothing else, we’ve learned by way of pandemic both the strength of our Internet and how many tools are left to build. As developers, we are in an exciting position to set the standards of our new normal and lay tracks toward the next frontier. This weekend, we are hosting our first Pioneer Hackathon, an attempt to provide community for those in isolation and a bit of prize-fueled, productive fun to fight global cabin fever.
55. 8 ways to communicate your ideas to your development team
57% of projects fail due to poor communication. To make a project successful, every team member should communicate with each other to be on the same page.
56. These Errors in One-on-One Meetings are Hurting Your Team
One-on-one meetings go wrong not because of lack of effort. They go wrong when you don’t pay attention to the little things that are needed to get them right.
57. A Guide to Managing Your Agile Engineering Team
Tips to succeed at software Engineering Team Management
58. How Slack's Huddles Gave Us The Boost We Needed To Launch
Remote working makes it hard to have the spontaneity that offices can bring. Slack Huddles managed to bring that to one team's successful bid for ProductHunt
59. 84 Stories To Learn About Team Building
Learn everything you need to know about Team Building via these 84 free HackerNoon stories.
60. Those That Work Together Win Together
Steve White | Working Together To Win Together
61. How To Get The Most Out The Pomodoro Technique To Be Highly Productive
Developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, the Pomodoro technique calls for using a timer to break down work into 25-minute intervals separated by short 5-minute breaks. After four sessions of work, the Pomodoro technique prescribes a longer 30-minute break.
62. Are We Measuring Product Success Correctly? - Advice for PMs
Measuring success is an integral part of any company, without which we cannot operate a product in any way or form. Without measuring success, the whole product vision would simply be based on some deluded platform of presumptions and intuitions which may or may not be correct. However, the question is what constitutes as ‘success’ and what should be measured in calculating how close or far we are to this success?
63. Why Team Building Matters - Winning Over Sceptics
Team building is not popular. One survey found 31% of workers dislike team-building activities. Perhaps many have been scarred by the forced fun of clumsy corporate team building events. But there’s real value there to be unlocked. How well a team communicates can be more important than how skilled its members are.
64. What Characteristics does a Team Need to Get to the "Super Bowl" Level?
To be the best of the best, Super Bowl championship teams need an elite level of consistency, trust, a culture of success, goals, measurement, and rewards.
65. Three Amigos Teach Us a Lot About Writing Better Agile User Stories
Do you use the “Three Amigos” Agile strategy?
66. 12 Effective Communication Tips Every Software Engineer Should Imbibe
How to improve your communication skills as a software engineer and increase your effectivity
67. What is DevOps and How Does it Influence the Digital Transformation of Companies?
When we talk about DevOps we mean the set of process automation practices in the software and IT departments. DevOps is a movement, or work philosophy, also defined as a culture of shared responsibility or systematic thinking, whose ultimate objective is none other than to work based on collaboration between members of the software development and IT / operations teams to achieve better and more agile results.
68. 7 Soft Skills You Need for 2023 and How to Develop Them
This post will share seven soft skills programmers can develop to position them for greater success in the new year.
69. Brainstorming Rules, "How Might We.." Method, Team Warm-Ups, & Brainstorming Sessions
To prepare for brainstorming, it is necessary to gather a team, acquaint all the participants with the rules of brainstorming, and also prepare questions.
70. From Zero to Hero: Build a Team of High-Performers
Building a successful business is a challenging task. It takes dedication, hard work, and a team of individuals willing to work together to achieve a common goal. I always say this, but businesses don’t move people; people move businesses.
71. Decentralizing the Office Space: Distributed Workplace is a New Norm
In recent years, remote working has become less of a concept and more of a reality. In lieu of traditional office space, full-time employees and freelancers alike are occupying home-offices, WeWork hot desks, and tables at their local life-source outlets (read: cafés selling coffee). Many progressive thinkers at the forefront of business forecasting, like Naval Ravikant, are professing that a digitally-facilitated, remote working environment is the next logical step for contemporary businesses looking to up their productivity output. However, is this just optimistic theorizing, or is there an actual basis for the distributed workplace to, well, work in the long-term?
72. Successful Managers Are Shit Umbrellas: Leadership 101
From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: If you’re having a hard time getting your team on the same page, I want to let you know that you’re not alone.
73. Save Yourself the Headaches and Document Agreements the Right Way
Agreements are an essential part of software development. They lower development costs and make developers' lives easier. But there is a problem..
74. What Are The Responsibilities Of Software Development Manager?
The definition and content of activities of the software development manager can vary widely.
75. Bring me Problems Not Solutions: Why Problem-Centric Leadership is Effective
Explore the limitations of the common leadership mantra "Bring me solutions, not problems."
76. The Art of (Architecture) Decision Making
Architects play an important part in decision making, but it comes with great responsibility. What if the decision is "wrong" How to minimize the uncertainty?
77. Same Product = Same Team: Myth or Fact?
The Scrum Guide is quite clear on one important thing: for one product there is only one Product Owner and only one Product Backlog:
78. How to Build a Dream Team: Tips for CTO
Even though a group of individuals is called a team, they are not. People do not know exactly which direction they are going and may pursue different goals.
79. What Is Your Leadership Style
Leadership comes in many shapes and forms, sizes, titles or lack thereof, and has a profound impact on whoever and whatever follows. Google defines leadership as "the action of leading a group of people or an organization", and to lead as "organize and direct", "be the principal player of a group", or "set (a process) in motion" among many similar definitions.
80. Approach to design of information systems
One of the leading Free TON development teams - RSquad shares its experience in information systems design and teamwork
81. DevOps Principles: Culture Vs. Tooling
One of the last questions asked in a DevOps interview is usually "so, what does DevOps mean to you?" I think this is a smart question, because DevOps is wildly misunderstood by the greater IT community. Some may answer that it's Continuous Integration and Releases, another may say it's having everything in Git, and the last might say that it's having tests available. All of these technical solutions do represent a key aspect of DevOps which is the tool chain, but it is the least important.
82. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Technical Debt
Jamal stared at his screen, perplexed by the convoluted SQL query he was trying to decipher.
83. Healthy Conflict is Necessary in the Workplace
I have always been wowed by people’s irrational desire to avoid healthy conflicts at work. It seemed that their primary goal is not to achieve results but to treat each other politely. Everyone was super polite and courteous. We were not making pots and pans; we were celebrating the Day of Politeness.
84. Can Your Team Be as Powerful as the Justice League?
Surround yourself with people much smarter than you, keep them happy, take care of them, let them know that you see them as important, amazing people, and they
85. Nasty Psychological Tricks People Play
Three ways we play psychological games in relationships through the lens of the Karpman Drama Triangle, victimhood, manipulation and different ego states
86. Creating a Simple yet Effective Engineering Culture
The best time to build an engineering culture is from the start, as retrofitting culture is not always so smooth, but the next-best time is now.
87. Learn How To Use Git Submodules on Practice
In this post we learn about concept of Submodules in git by actually troubleshooting a case of embedding multiple git repositories
88. Keep Sharing Context: How to Enable Better and Faster Product Decisions
“So, what do you think?” — says the Product Manager after a product strategy presentation to his team
89. The “Best Practice” Trap
Don’t go in with an opinion. Go in with data. Prepare one piece of evidence before you walk into the room or join the call.
90. How Team Collaboration Impacts Cybersecurity
Team synergy is everything when it comes to cybersecurity.
91. Code Reviews: Tips On Getting More Feedback
Nobody leaving comments on your code reviews? Try out these 3 tips on getting eye balls on your pull requests
92. Skyeng’s In-house Services: Doing More With Less
How We Accomplish More While Working Less
93. Cross-Functional, Self-Organized, or Self-Managed Teams
Exploring misconceptions about Agile methods and terminology, including cross-functional and self-managed teams, and the importance of focusing on actual work.
94. Explaining Important Skills For Hero Developers Using Lego Bricks
Programming is like building Lego bricks. Any developer can pick a brand new Lego set and build it following the instructions. This is very easy. Think of it as coding school assignments or entry level tutorials.
95. Explore Why You Should Keep a Growth Mindset in Interviews
In situations where we change or update the tech stack, the team will be required to learn new languages, frameworks, databases, etc.
96. Secrets of Effective Collaboration With a Remote Team
Alexey Kataev, Head of Development at Skyeng, talks about running an efficient remote development team.
97. Importance of Safety In Workplace
Every single day, people head to work with the desires that they will have the option to finish their day by day undertakings liberated from accidents or some other wellbeing dangers. Positively, we as a whole have the right to work in protected and clean conditions. And keeping in mind that most organizations take measures to guarantee the wellbeing of their repr...
