Helpful reads for software engineering leaders.

How to Motivate a Software Engineering Team Without Using Your "Boss" Card

Feeling in the dark about how to motivate your software engineering team without using your role power? Roger Deetz of Springbuk has some helpful tips.

How to Minimize Your Risk of Hiring the Wrong Person For Your Engineering Team

How Level 12 Saves Time, Adds Hiring Expertise with Woven

Level 12’s future with Woven includes testing more candidates, and Randy reports that he’s already more confident in the way he’s navigating the hiring process. Woven’s team expertise, time-saving testing, and evidence-based rubrics all appeal to his data-loving nature.

Helping Springbuk Scale Their Engineering Team After Raising $20 Million

Embracing Your Inner “Latent Leader,” With Roger Deetz

Developer Hiring Is Hard

Research from Google and others has demonstrated that work samples are the best way to predict success on the job. And if you do them right, candidates prefer them over traditional interviews too.

Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety for Your Engineering Team

Being a Tortoise in a Hare’s World, With Ade Olonoh

Everyone focuses on the “overnight successes” in software, but comparing ourselves to outliers doesn’t make us better, nor more likely to succeed. Ade ran dozens and dozens of failed experiments before hitting on Formspring, so his advice is to focus on experimenting, and incrementally delivering customer value. The right growth rate will follow.

Avoiding Mis-Hires Through Evidence, With Raman Ohri

Assessing Over 400 Software Engineering Candidates in 72 Hours, Without Using Resumes

How Woven and TechPoint Collaborated To Complete Assessment in 72 Hours