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Four Tips for Asking for Feedback

Feedback is a tool that helps me learn about my blind spots, where I’m helping people, and where I’m hindering. Sometimes I ask for feedback about a specific event or occasion, other times I ask for advice on a subject. Both types of requests aim to get information to help me improve.

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Here are four tips I've learned that help me get better feedback or advice.

The Cyrus Cylinder: Benefits From Writing Our First End-to-End Tests

My team had started working on an existing Ruby on Rails web application with a JavaScript-heavy front-end interface. Our goal was to help the client build a suite of automated tests and start practicing Test-Driven Development.

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I've started blogging as part of my job at Cyrus Innovation. Here's my first post, it's about my experiences starting to work on a legacy code base and beginning with an end-to-end test.