<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[drcathicks]]></title><description><![CDATA[drcathicks]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:50:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.drcathicks.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Cat @ VirtualDDD: "a barn burner of a talk" References &#38; Resources]]></title><description><![CDATA[HERE is the full video of the talk! Thank you to Amy Hoy for this charming description of my talk , and to Hazel Weakly for a delightful...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/cat-virtualddd-a-barn-burner-of-a-talk-references-resources</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67fef6a8c9ecd448414a2248</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:43:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citation as Pilgrimage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I listened to this podcast  with Phil Cousineau because it came up in the dice roll of my driving playlist (I haven’t read the...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/citation-as-pilgrimage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c23eb2e517fc05524d4cf1</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:13:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ways to listen to (rather than read about) the psychology of software teams!]]></title><description><![CDATA[You know what I realized? I've been putting a lot of work into audio scicomm (or as most people call it, being on podcasts) and I haven't...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/ways-to-listen-to-rather-than-read-about-the-psychology-of-software-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67b8c1482bc078770931e6b2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just another example of how collaboration, not competition, drives healthy science]]></title><description><![CDATA[In November, Ana Hevesi  and I published the first version of our Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving  as a preprint,...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/just-another-example-of-how-collaboration-not-competition-drives-healthy-science</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67b0d7a2e2c8f9851f4037b2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:06:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assorted (unsorted) thoughts about trauma-informed research ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whenever I start a research project, I pull from my fiction-writing toolkit. One of my initiating questions I use to interrogate any...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/assorted-unsorted-thoughts-about-trauma-informed-research</link><guid isPermaLink="false">677c09c321d855aa984d348a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:04:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving: new preprint]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the last three years, I have thought often about why individual-level "explanations" of developers' ability, potential &#38; productivity...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/a-cumulative-culture-theory-of-developer-problem-solving-new-preprint</link><guid isPermaLink="false">674c8ddad536db5bba83d1cd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On disclosure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The following is not a blogpost, but rather a direct copy of the text from a post I made on Linkedin today . I have an uneasy...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-disclosure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67323bf9d88d34906175ded5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:20:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corporate Attribution Error]]></title><description><![CDATA[I made up this term the other day and frankly, I just liked it so much that I wanted to document it on my blog so I would remember it....]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/corporate-attribution-error</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66dc7286a911bc1e121c95ee</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:53:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat @ the Bridges Summit: References and Resources]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today I'm giving a talk to the fabulous Bridges Summit .  I'll come back to this post to share my talk once it's available! Meanwhile, I...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/cat-the-bridges-summit-references-and-resources</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66cf679abbdb13b4763efd1b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:26:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Uncertainty]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently had reason to remember and re-read this important piece: Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy. I also had...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/the-uncertainty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6686d4d151f66b3ab8e540cf</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:06:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open access developer science roundup]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've been busy. Developer Thriving: four sociocognitive factors that create resilient productivity on software teams Co-authored with my...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/an-open-access-developer-science-roundup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">662a679cb43f2e500a10f359</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:59:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_dd11e6f8355d4df6855c57b04407ead1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_942,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covid Data Log]]></title><description><![CDATA[Note: For me, 2023 was defined by battling through and recovering from severe and life-threatening illness. Am I better now? Idk. Far...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/covid-data-log</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6591b1b20942ea5043d1ee68</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:19:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can't stop thinking about this lately. After several research projects and across 25+ in-depth sessions with teams tasked with...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/engineering-managers-do-triage-work-do-we-know-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">657350bbc5f897fdbc765a6f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:34:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On hidden context: Behavioral science is the key to studying engineering effectiveness ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the last eight months, I've talked about our Developer Thriving framework with junior developers, with industry analysts, with crowds...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-hidden-context-behavioral-science-is-the-key-to-studying-engineering-effectiveness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655cf6eaefc5fedc9f82e156</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:38:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most personal talk I've ever given in tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month I was lucky to get to go to Monktoberfest for the first time -- and bring Dr. Carol Lee and Morgan Ramsey, the two senior...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/the-most-personal-talk-i-ve-ever-given-in-tech</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6558f936581ac7ea0ec08004</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:59:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_cdc3967dabec4a638fe9b3dc42224cc0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_880,h_486,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things happen, not just what]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently had the chance to listen to a talk from Dr. Claire Meaders about her intervention science work in scaffolding better and more...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/when-things-happen-not-just-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">654c0b4336edb0b13ac4a5e9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:53:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New research from me: AI Skill Threat &#38; contest cultures on software teams ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thrilled (and frankly, exhausted in that great-bone-deep-I-made-something way) that I can now share this with you: the Developer Success...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/new-research-from-me-ai-skill-threat-contest-cultures-on-software-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65315d2d079c612f09a4c9b7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:01:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_c09b77b12f1a4485ad827fb615c4a4b1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_960,h_540,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Craft]]></title><description><![CDATA[My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64f240457419bc89f7216341</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense of Belonging and Software Teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading about role-based belonging. This is a paper I’ve come back to several times in the last few months. I especially like...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/sense-of-belonging-and-software-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64dce670a993c5566ba29842</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:18:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening &#38; Talking at LeadDev London]]></title><description><![CDATA[In June, I had the chance to go to LeadDev London. It was really an amazing experience (as evidenced by the fact that I’m still thinking...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/listening-talking-at-leaddev-london</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64d7ba11c2b7930a5ef1fa1d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:08:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_fa7e6f2889b74731a61cde27b603eb88~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>