The 7 Duties of Great Software Professionals
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Seven concrete duties: motivate yourself, direct yourself, educate yourself, measure yourself, connect yourself, brand yourself, improve yourself. Practical claims: use ten motivator cards (CHAMP FROGS) to align work, create visual metaphors for goals, run a metrics matrix measuring multiple stakeholders (evaluations, sticky notes, downloads), treat blogging as a feedback loop that led to a book and courses, run lots of small experiments and track cycle time.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 7:36How To Become a Successful Worker
- 10:58First Motivate Yourself
- 12:39Nine Basic Desires
- 12:50The Self-Determination Theory
- 17:03Mission Statement
- 17:54Google's Mission Statement
- 19:14Visual Metaphors
- 21:28Third One Educate Yourself
- 23:57Definition of Self-Organization
- 29:01Three Principles for Good Metrics
- 30:26How Do You Track Your Growth as Software Professional
- 33:41The Cross Function Team
- 34:58Brand Yourself
- 35:54Googling Yourself
- 37:09Being Remarkable
- 39:46Improve Yourself
- 40:05Embrace Change
- 42:06Discover New Knowledge over Executing Repeated Actions
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