Top all-time · #14110
Roy Osherove
Personal blog · 5whys.com/blog · on HN as royosherovecareerprogramming
Roy Osherove writes 5 Whys, a personal blog at 5whys.com about career and programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “A Value System for Code Reviews, and How to Scale Them for a Large Project”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Roy Osherove on software team leadership: growing self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode, and the Elastic Leadership model. Articles, interviews and videos.
Most-linked posts?
- A Value System for Code Reviews, and How to Scale Them for a Large Project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-18
What Hacker News says?
http://5whys.com - I'd recommend a lot of the advice there (I'm the owner of that blog so I'm a bit biased). http://teamleaderbook.com is a book that I wrote for software team leaders
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?”Submitted Signs you might be in "Survival Mode" as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI came up with my own set of questions that hopefully show how a person can deal with human complexity at work (the bulk of our issues), rather than memorizing algorithms. Some people don't like it - but it works for me: https://www.5whys.com/articles/a-realistic-hackerrank-develo...
Comment linking /articles/a-realistic-hackerrank-developer-interview-question-list.html
on “How to pass a programming interview (2016)”Submitted 12 Lessons Learned for a New Team Lead as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor a team that has low code quality - here's how I like to start my code review process. not everyone will like it, but I find it effective at growing people's skills: https://www.5whys.com/articles/step-4-start-doing-code-revie...
Comment linking /articles/step-4-start-doing-code-reviews-seriously.html
on “Effective Code Reviews – A Primer”Submitted The Bus Factor – Why your ‘best’ developer is your biggest problem (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Developer interview that actually makes sense as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When I want to give up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scrum Master 2.0 – A Scrum Master is Not as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Survival Mode - The reason you never have enough time to do things right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevOps Survival Mode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When I Want to Give Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Realistic HackerRank Developer Interview Question List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Value System for Code Reviews, and How to Scale Them for a Large Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top Four Dangers of Survival Mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Value System for Code Reviews, and How to Scale Them for a Large Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bus Factor – Why your ‘best’ developer is your biggest problem (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Disobedience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Techniques to Avoid the Bus Factor In your Teams: Push and Pull as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feeling Stupid is Highly Recommended as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Team Leader Manifesto as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coaching Architect (Video) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Manifesto For Sofware Team Leaders - Take 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 12 Behavior Anti Patterns You Will Face As a Software Team Leader as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Productive and Stop Using XML as a story · 1 points
HN discussion