Portfolio of Keith Elder
Hacking Your Schedule To Stay Productive
It is no secret that as leaders our calendars are often full of meetings. Juggling one-on-ones, team meetings, and even required leadership meetings can be stressful. At times, it can be difficult to know what to do when you have a lot of meetings coming up. Especially when you are a new leader or team member at the Rocket FOC. I was recently asked to help a new leader with managing their calendar. Here are the tips I came up with from that conversation that might help you stay productive and get things done.
Announcing Devvie Days
Devvie Days is a new concept where those that are going through the Dev Build Program, aka DevBuilders, get to spend the majority of a day shadowing a real software engineering team.
Tips for Writing Your DRIVE Reviews
The following outlines my preferred format for team members to write their reviews and provides guidance for team members about how to track their information.
Engineering Skills Assessment
In order to help team members grow their skills a baseline first must be established. This outlines the method for how I get a good idea of the skills a team member has and identify areas they need to work on.
Michigan State University Capstone Project 2018
I developed and designed a capstone project for a team of students at Michigan State University entitled "Walter, you gotta go". For the fall semester of 2018 I met weekly with the students to support them in delivering the project for their final for the class. The students came to Quicken Loans and presented it technology in December of 2018.