Design Thinking + Lean Startup + Agile Development

This summs it up pretty well:

Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile: What is the difference?

I personally put this all under "Lean Development". Of course stretching that definition a bit especially with the Design Thinking part. But overall a very good approach to good software development.

Why do I think the "Customer is King"-Mentality of some software development companies will create all kinds of ugly failed projects as a side-effects and them blaming the processes and/or developers instead of mismanagement?

Feedback Without Frustration

good talk, as usual for Scott Berkun.

Boost Team's Intelligence? Recruit Women

Want to Boost Your Team's Intelligence? Recruit More Women (and More Diversely)

I've been saying this for years now. I always like to have some women on a team. The end result just is much better. They just have such a different view on things. Sadly they are so rare in my work field.

Why The New Guy Can’t Code

Why The New Guy Can’t Code

Great, almost exactly what I think and what my experience tells me.

The fundamental problem is that the skills required to pass today’s industry-standard software interview are not the skills required to be a good software developer.

and a very good advice that is completely true:

don’t interview anyone who hasn’t accomplished anything. Ever.

For a coder that is the most important thing. I had completed dozens of private code projects as I graduated. And I still consider this very important on any other coder. If you don't write at least some code in your spare time you just never gonna be a good coder. Experience for a coder is the most important thing. People which just graduated and never wrote more than a few small sample applications are worthless need a lot of additional mentoring. And a lot of those inexperienced never really get to a point where you can call them good coders.

The startups I've worked with so far did a fairly good job there. I did apply to a bigger company once and got a email back with something in the direction of 30 questions. That was awful and had a lot of stupid useless stuff in it. I did fill it out and send it back, but my view of the company was way down from before. My motivation to work there was limited after that ..

Overcome Burnout

How to Overcome Burnout When You're a Superachiever

Lifehacker has such great artikles sometimes. I really read a lot of them ..

Avoid Idea Plateaus

Scott Belsky on How to Avoid Idea Plateaus | Brain Pickings

Wow! Thats so true from my experience and I already try to do something against this.