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Recommended books · Code That Fits In Your Head by Mark Seemann. · The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas; · Clean Code by Robert ...

Tips for Running a Developer Book Club | Blog - Crema

Here are three categories that we found helpful in the decision-making process: content, availability, and length.

How do you run an effective clean code book club, and looking for ...

In our club I just facilitate a discussion. What did everyone think? Favorite parts? What really works is that one person in our club takes this ...

What's the best way to run a technical book club? [closed]

What I like to do in a book club is find practical application - or examples of practical application of the concepts in the book.

Developer Book Club | Henrik Warne's blog

Learn more. I think reading programming books is a great way to learn more about software development. Reading in the book club has the added ...

How I run a software book club | notes.eatonphil.com

I run the virtual book clubs over email. I create a Google Group and tell people to send me their email for an invite. I use a Google Form to collect emails ...

Running an Effective Book Club at Work | nicole@web - Ntietz

Pick a relevant book. When you're doing a book club at work, taking work time for it, this is kind of a given. I wouldn't run a ...

I run a software book club | Hacker News

I ran a book club for 7 years when I worked at TriOptima. We were maybe 40 developers in total at the company, and around 10 would join when we picked a new ...

Starting an Engineering Book Club | by John Torres

A successful book club needs a dedicated group of participants. Start by asking your immediate team, direct reports, manager, and skip-level to ...

Recipes for running a successful technical book club at work

For programming books — if you have a 1hr session each week then spend 15 minutes to summarise the chapter, 35 minutes to do some problems and ...

Starting a developer book club - Bram van der Giessen

Starting a developer book club · Book clubs can be a effective way to stay up to date with latest technologies and best practices and learn with ...

Running a Technical Book Club. The SingaporeJS ... - Medium

It's not always easy to finish technical books when you're reading alone. Reading together as a part of the Book Club ensures you'll eventually ...

What is the best way to run a successful book club? - Quora

Begin by selecting a group of people willing to commit. Some book clubs have a core group of five people, and then additional people who only show up sometimes.

Starting an Engineering Management Book Club | blog.danielna.com

Agree on pre-defined social rules. Defined social rules up front help ensure the group dynamics you want. When you send out the initial invite to join book club ...

Book Club for Tech Leads - 99Designs

For the past 18 months at 99designs we've been running a book club for our tech leads. What started as an ad-hoc process to jump start quality in our code ...

Running a company book club: tips & what we read - EthicalAds

Advice on running a lightweight book club · Don't overthink what is required to get started. · We have a recurring weekly meeting for 30 minutes, ...

Team Building With Technical Book Clubs | Capital One

Recurring calendar invite. · Book club Slack channel. · Wiki page for additional resources and summaries. · GitHub repo for programming books.

Running a Technical Book Club - Take 1 - Source Allies

Running a Technical Book Club - Take 1 · Meet in a quiet location - This year we will be meeting in a conference room with little distractions · A ...

7 Secrets for Scaling Your Technical Book Club | Tracy Lum

It helps to have management buy-in, but perhaps equally or more important is buy-in from your senior developers and other influential people on the team.

Running an Engineering Book Club - Adam McKerlie

Running an Engineering Book Club · 1. Keep it small, 8 people or less · 2. Choose the book together · 3. Schedule every meeting from the start · 4. Have the meeting ...


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