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Leveling-up Pairing Skills with the Pear Conf Quarterly Read
Other than doing more pairing, there are not a lot of obvious ways to get better at working with a pair in any setting: pair programming, pair testing or pair design. Indeed, what are the skills that matter if we talk about getting better at pairing? Obviously, there are the subject matter skills such as…
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Do you know who your user is?
Are you on an engineering team with no access to a designer? On an engineering team, we tend to make the assumption that there’s always a designer. In reality, I’ve found that the opposite is often the case, but this doesn’t mean you can ignore design. We typically equate design with photoshop and assets, but…
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inkTECHtober
During October, artists all over the world participate in project called Inktober. Every day, they post, in their channel of choice, a drawing done in ink. There are some suggested prompts, but the drawing doesn’t have to be from the prompt, in fact it doesn’t have to be that great or that finished either. Sure…
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Level-up, get promoted and recover from burnout…
Who knew that when I organized the 2nd iteration of what I thought would be a small, local, software conference, Pear Conf, I would be starting my own business. Pear Conf happened over a beautiful two days this past July. We talked, we punned, we painted! I even saw some really great chilling out happening…
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