Sunday, January 11, 2015

Strive To Fix What You Can

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I will admit to sometimes getting frustrated at work when someone doesn't want to work in a specific codebase because they think it has ...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Quality is #1

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A product with poor quality should not be tolerated. Delivering a product at the cost of quality should only be accepted in the short-term. ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Brute Neighbors

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One of my more cherished and private possessions is a book -  American Prose . It was printed in 1892, and is filled with short stories by A...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Not Even In The Same Ballpark

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Not so long ago, a new Product Manager told me that she also is a programmer... a software engineer. She implied that if she wanted she coul...
Monday, December 22, 2014

How To Make Meetings Better

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1. Improve collaboration in meetings by removing the chairs from the conference room. Researchers at the Olin Business School at Washingto...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

How To Make Email Better

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1. Don't open an email unless you are prepared to deal with it right away. If you only open email when you have time to respond, archi...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

How To Have A Successful Off-Site

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Off-site meetings are a great way to break free from the tunnel vision that can develop in the workplace. They can inspire your team to thin...
Monday, December 08, 2014

Four Points For a Better Team

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Promote The Team Teamwork is powerful. Reward it. Also, make the effort to stop selfish and egocentric behavior. Get Visual Everyone ...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

From Sensing An Opportunity To Implementing An Idea

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That's when you know -- you can't sleep because you're thinking about this idea incessantly. -Mona Bijoor, Founder of Joor ...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Managing Technical Debt

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Technical debt is all the shortcuts that save money or speed up progress today at the risk of costing money or slowing down progress in the ...