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Technical Writing

Tech Writing is the practice of documenting software, hardware, or process to make the work easier. As Tech Writer, you manage knowledge and information.

Sunk Cost

Sunk costs are the expenses spent in the process and are not concluded as successful. These can be of financial, time, or one's attachment nature and are thus resources which costs won’t return in any way.

Icebreaker

An icebreaker is an activity you can use at the beginning of a meeting to make attendees more comfortable with each other, encouraging them to speak up, listen up, join in, and open up to new ideas.

Toxic Team Culture

Dangerous toxic team culture spreads easily. It is often started by a combination of bad management and disinvolved employees. It is crucial to deal with it as soon as possible.

Not My Problem Mentality

“Not My Problem” mentality is a dangerous phenomenon that can jeopardize your project. Collaboration is a result of a healthy team environment and a good leadership.

Meaningless Work

Meaningless work can be one of these two cases: 1. A feeling that the work has no meaning, the team members do not have a sense of purpose. 2. A work on a product that is not valuable.

Demotivated Team

Team motivation is important to maintain creativity. Employee dissatisfaction can be caused by many factors. The team leader’s job is to motivate the team and therefore create a productive climate.

Long Feedback Loops

Long feedback loops are frustrating. The goal is to make them as short as possible using the correct tooling and motivating the team. Ensure that every team member understands why are the feedback loops important.

Proper Bug Reporting

Proper bug reporting is a crucial practice for development. It helps to understand where the product lacks its functionality or performance. Bug reports are descriptions of bugs found by testers.

Scrum

Scrum is an agile framework focused on a productive and creative delivery of complex products with an emphasis on the highest possible value. Scrum is lightweight, simple to understand and difficult to master.

Team Lead

Team leads are responsible for the team’s well being. They protect their team from managers and stakeholders. They ensure that the team and stakeholders are on the same page.

Clickable Prototype

Clickable Prototypes are interactive demos of a website or a software application. These are often used to gather feedback early in the project lifecycle, before the project goes into the final stage of development.

Agile Events

Agile Events are necessary meetings for keeping up the good work. They are usually time-boxed and the most common Agile framework that uses these periodic rituals is Scrum.

Penetration Testing

Penetration Tests are performed to identify network security weaknesses. It is a "friendly cyberattack" for spotting flaws and potential vulnerabilities.

Bus Factor

A Bus Factor measures the minimum number of team members who have to be hit by a bus to put the project in jeopardy. The goal is to increase your Bus Factor as much as possible.

Devops

DevOps is a set of practices that brings development and operations teams together. The collaboration helps to release software much faster.