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[Webinar] The Dev Soapbox: Protecting Deep Work

by uplevel | Aug 31, 2022 | Blog, Resources

WATCH NOW ON-DEMAND Too many meetings. No time to work. All bugs…ALL the time. Sound familiar? Oftentimes, devs are faced with countless projects with no time to actually work on them because they are dealing with non-stop interruptions and distractions. Cal Newport,...

[E-book] The Dev Team Playbook

by uplevel | Jun 22, 2022 | Blog, Resources

Is your team maintaining a healthy balance of engagement vs. focus? Collaboration vs. Deep Work? Dev teams rely on this balance to be successful. But achieving it can take some strategic play calling. Development is a team sport. And the best players in any sport are...

Webinar: What Your Devs Aren’t Telling You

by uplevel | Jun 1, 2022 | Blog, Resources

WATCH NOW ON-DEMAND Devs are product drivers who want to contribute and make a real impact on the business. They know when something is or isn’t working, and they’re especially good at sniffing out BS. As such, there are no shortcuts to developer...

We tried a 4-day workweek for three months. Here’s what we learned.

by uplevel | May 10, 2022 | News, Resources

For the first three months of 2022, we worked a condensed week from Monday to Thursday. No 10-hour days. We didn’t cut anyone’s salary. Just more time for our team to destress away from their desks. Sound crazy? That’s what we wanted to find out. Was the idea radical...

[E-book] A dev’s guide to burnout

by uplevel | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog, Resources

So many of us are drawn to this career for its dynamism. Every day, we’re tasked with new problems to solve, expansive features to build, and complex puzzles to tackle. That doesn’t mean it’s endlessly easy. Ambitious deadlines and first-to-market goals can run us...

Webinar: Debugging burnout for devs

by uplevel | Jan 26, 2022 | Blog, Resources

VIEW ON-DEMAND NOW Some days, your heart isn’t in your work. You find yourself staring out the window, returning to the same line of code several times before accepting that it’s just not happening today. We get it. With the pandemic nearing its two year anniversary,...