Oftentimes startups fail because of the wrong type of people mixed up together. Far too often startups are built out of group of friends, people who like working together, playing games together, drinking together and socialising together, not neccessarily playing well together. Far too often startups are formed these days because it’s fashionable, comfortable, and […]
What motivates great software developers? As I move from one company to another and work with more clients, looking back at 15 years of history, things become more clear than ever. There are two types of motivating factors that attract great developers. Each of the factor brings a different type of motivation into play and […]
There’s no school, no training, no book you can read on being creative. Sure, there’s tons on sale in each category but the sad truth is that being creative is not a type of hard skill to learn. Being creative is just being creative. Once you are, you are. If you’re not, then… Actually there […]
Working with life partners or close friends never work. You either put too much pressure — your personal relationship breaks completely or not enough pressure — your professional productivity breaks completely. Getting it right is statistically very hard to achieve. Many marriages and many products broke down because people tried.
There’s an issue with some of the ill-conceived managers. Naturally any student who wants to be a manager thinks of themselves as a person in a large team, in a big office. Oddly enough this line of thinking might be also represented by some junior managers in the making. Obviously everyone wants a big and […]
How do you avoid having arguments at the workplace? You don’t. It all depends how you structure the relationships at your workplace and what are the subjects of controversies. Most importantly: all depends how people treat each other and how they put their arguments forward.It’s actually good to have differences in opinions, constructive criticism, even […]
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. – Antoine de Saint Exupéry Another way to improve software management process is simply to create great teams. As previously mentioned, great teams […]
If you’ve ever wondered why companies with long processes are slow at not only adopting but also at improving, consider the following. For software developers, getting better at what they do requires quick feedback (positive and negative) on what has been just done. The faster you get the feedback, the faster you’ll learn. With long-cycle […]
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 […]
In today’s digital age, it’s hard to focus. But the Not-Right-Now list can help you get things done. Most people operate with To-Do lists. If you’re like me, it seems as though that To-Do list never ends and you never check everything off of it. It’s so easy to add new things to the To-Do […]
