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The power of experience

When I was much younger than now my mum used to say that when I’ll be her age we’ll talk. This was a kind of a way of putting a lid on a conversation when it got uncomfortable the way I’ll probably do it when my kids start talking (too) much… I used to respond […]

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Scalability of life

If you want to live life three times the size you need to switch the engine… Ergh, brain engine that is. And this is going to look weird. @mzagozda on Twitter · via Twitter If you look at many people there are two types: the ones who achieve relatively mediocre productivity and the super-productive types. […]

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Productivity rules

Superheros of productivity have their rules of thumb and here’s the three from my plate. – Procrastination. The superheros can play long game, mount layers of requirements just to have the unimportant stuff delayed for as long as possible without having to say “no” in nobody’s face. – Ignorance. The superhores can ignore long e-mails […]

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Manager’s mindset

Go around the office and you’ll find people who feel too cold and some other who feel too hot. Now, one can tell an attempted manager because he or she would ask people around if they need turning the heating up or down and do what people want. True manager however would also do that […]

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TaskBeat Gamification

Recently we’ve published a new version of TaskBeat running a new algorithm measuring productivity of each member of our team. I’ve decided to share with some insights of how it works. TaskBeat opens the default view with a leaderboard showing each member’s Kudos and Karma. Kudos is measured as a number of points achieved by […]

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Conflicting areas of management

Every company deals with issue of prioritisation every now and then. This is because we record work in different places. Typically in each company you find the following areas managed individually: – a list of things to do, with their priorities as the business, – then you’ve got a layer of project deadlines as project […]

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Three things to improve speed of delivery

Again – just three of them but personally selected from many years of my experience. Not a hundred per cent devotee to a ship early, ship frequntly but I think that’s getting close. I think they’re the 3 most important things any software house should be doing to improve speed of delivery of a software […]

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3 things to improve quality of a software product

Just had a thought how to improve the quality of the product in any software development effort. I thought of three most obvious, simple and feasable things. Quality of software boils down to the code and three things that any software house should to be doing. Probably more steps can be undertaken but here’s my […]

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Gaining control

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Multi-tasking

Human multitasking is the performance by an individual of appearing to handle more than one task at the same time. The term is derived from computer multitasking. An example of multitasking is listening to a radio interview while typing an email. Some believe that multitasking can result in time wasted due to human context switching […]

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