A bunch of individuals doesn’t make a team
A team sport Last year I've finally obtained the certificate of competency authorizing me to operate sailing yachts so I've spent a part of my…
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Take a break
Just one more... Do you know the feeling of I'll compile it just one more time or I'll fix only this one more bug? The…
Common sense is not so common
I talked recently with one of my coworkers about software management. She pointed out that we should use common sense instead of management technologies or…
Software Development is pretty much about the Team
But Linus Torvalds wrote Linux all by himself, right? That's not exactly true. Linus wrote the first Linux kernel. But he didn't work all…
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A story about communication between dev and manager…
Today a short story about "A Man in a Ballon". Sad but often true. A Man in a Balloon A man in a hot air…
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If you were hit by a bus tomorrow would your project be dead in the water?
If you were hit by a bus tomorrow... If you were hit by a bus tomorrow (knock on wood) would your project get stuck? I…
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Jump Start blog takes sick leave :(
My awesome readers, I'm sorry. I'm sick and I have to take few days break from posting. Good luck in your software projects!
Estimates & different points of view. Business vs developers
I made an estimate... I took part in many projects, but there is one I particularly remember... As soon as I joined the team technical…
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Developer under time pressure ? work faster : work better
Mind reading and predicting future techniques aren't fully developed yet. So lot's of software development projects is late. It get's better when the agile processes are…
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Inking and thinking in software development
It's not the ink—it's the think “It's not the ink—it's the think,” wrote Robert Mankoff (New Yorker cartoon editor), answering to the question how to get ideas…
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