For a long time, I have been using Freemind for many purposes. For those who didn’t use it yet, I highly recommend checking it out, it’s cross-platform, an open-source desktop application for mind mapping. I guess it will be a little bit brave, but suppose I can compare the flexibility of this Freemind with Excel power. As Excel is excellent for anything that has tabular data, Freemind is just perfect for data of directional graph structure. I found many use-cases it could …
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Have finished reading The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun. Fundamental, comprehensive work covers many aspects of managing projects, people, time. The book itself is an excellent tool that can be used by me for building the process and solving problems.Below is mindmap of the book. Hope will help you the same as me. Project management It’s everywhere around us It’s evolving for a long time Be open-minded PM can be role, job, profession PM Activities What the project …
Books The book of the month is The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle recommended me by Henrique Santana de Miranda. It’s easy to read, inspirational research about group dynamic and some insights that differ great, good, and bad teams. I highly recommend reading the book to anyone, I pretty sure you’ll enjoy reading and for sure became a better team player in the future. For those who still not convinced to read here is a detailed summary of the book. Management, Startups, …
Traveling, working at the office, participation in bike ride made this moth less effective for reading, and this time my list is a little bit shorter than usual. Management, Startups, Marketing, Productivity Great post from Andreessen Horowitz about startups and power of network effect Programming, technologies, computer science Handy and useful regexp manual and another one tool is the navigator through the universe of git commands I didn’t know about those weird ways to use IP address. Looks fun.
Management, Startups, Marketing, Productivity Holy-wars are very popular in IT industry: tabs vs spaces, gradle vs maven, OOP vs functional programming, etc. If you have to solve real problems spending time on it isn’t very productive. Are there any frameworks or recommendations on how to discuss and make a decision about such things? Fortunately, yes, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) faced with this issue and defined the list of principles. Trello is a great collaboration tool, and their blog is …
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Management, Startups, Marketing, Productivity Summary of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport. Of course it worth to read the book but for busy people with long “have to read” lists, summaries like that are priceless. Estimates are hard and never precise. This research (russian version) based on more than 12k projects and represents some correlations between scale of projects and probability estimate time for the project right. I few impressive outcomes: in most …
This time it will be lightweight digest because all the month I was busy with trips, meetings, running new internal system, that hopefully will become a product till the end of the year and learning new stuff on CEO-way course. I fulled up my reading list with many books and hopefully soon will able to share new ideas with my readers. Books The Art of Project Management. Scott Berkun. Great, and I would say fundamental book about project management. In …
Programming, technologies, computer science Well structured explanation of standard data structures Useful Spring boot development tips&tricks Front-End Developer Handbook 2018 is comprehensive list of tools, skills and articles for modern frontend developer Management, Startups, Marketing, Productivity A few controversial ideas about productivity from Marc Andreessen (entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer). Worth to read for everyone who is interesting in the topic Books Angular Up and Running. Author: Shyam Seshadri Modern front-end is growing and changing every day and sometimes just …
Programming, technologies, computer science Comprehensive Linux and Python cheat sheets. I like the density of useful information per line and both cheat sheets are bright examples of short, useful and readable documentation. git.news trending github repositories Huge list of public APIs. I just put it here because will return back to this link and hope it will be useful for you. Nice visualization of Algorithms and Data Structures Management, Startups, Marketing During research of different approaches to generate and consider …
