“There is a level of despair out there. We have got to have a government that speaks to the whole community, not just the layer at the top.” – T.May, Home Secretary, UK. The recent wave of criminality in London is in fact just a reaction to despair It’s only the British white of Theresa […]
Never assume anything is not actually as smart as you might have thought… Asked yourself if you knew if major you’ve chosen at university is what you want to specialise? Did you know it back then or did you merely made an educated guess? How many times you’ve taken a job knowing it’s right for […]
As much as most of the respected management sources criticise industrial-era approach by “command and control” I start to like the environment more and more. It seems to attract developers, who have actually retired, just counting years to the official retirement age. Such developers are creating pleasurable work environment as a general mix of experience […]
The perception is that the first SDLC / “lets-do-it-right” project has been released with the greates number of bugs and caused the heavy shower of P1 incidents ever recorded in recent years. The perception is that almost all new hires are coming from one personal affiliation key with less than expected minimum of transparency. The […]
IT sometimes feels like it’s yet to embrace the concept of service. Far too often we hide ourselves behind the specifications, demand requirements. We’re in the business of creating solutions, but more importantly we’re in the service business. Throughout my career too many times I’ve seen the software being sold as a product comparable to […]
Nokia has created this for themselves. For many years they have been developing the state of art software delivery and life-cycle management system just to realise that they’re unable to innovate quickly enough and switch from building best phones with best software on them to building ecosystems around their platform. The game has changed shortly […]
For many years now I’ve been advocating for cutting costs of management as engaged and motivated personnel is woth so much more. I’m probably reaching the point of reversing my view on the matter as management is notoriously providing disruption for creative processes, you probably need to spend a little bit more on management, just […]
When a senior manager with over 23 years of experience in IT, most of it in management, smashed against the business and the first day he realises he needs to find out about managing the agile process… The most amazing thing is that in order to attend a training in a completely new methodology on […]
When a senior manager with over 23 years of experience in IT, most of it in management, smashed against the business and the first day he realises he needs to find out about managing the agile process… The most amazing thing is that in order to attend a training in a completely new methodology on […]
Emigrating to another country widens your horizons in so many ways, also in a way that allowed me tomrealise that differences in standards of living, at least those measured by purchasing power of an average wage, don’t come from the fact that some areas have been and are poorer, neither from some vicious policies of […]
