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 […]
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 […]
Time and again I’ve been asked how do I interview developers for the teams Magda and I have been running over the years. Quite notably there’ve been few openings in the business ran by my partner recently and also I’ve been involved in interviewing for new openings within the companies I’ve had worked for in […]
