Category: slowcook
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Scouting for talents
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You are looking to build a great team and you face a limited budget.Ups, you don’t have fancy budget or fancy recruiting agency to use. I have bad news. It’s not possible. In fact, it’s not possible next week. Still, if you are a strategic planner, you will have your…
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Programatorii adopta culturi organizationale mai greu decat cei din alte meserii?
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August 2011:Programatorii adopta culturi organizationale mai greu decat cei din alte meserii?Sunt artisti sau ingineri?Ii putem asimila arhitectilor sau inginerilor constructori? Intrebari. Raspunde cineva? Ianuarie 2012:Nu a raspuns nimeni. Concluziile mele sunt ca o cultura organizationala se adopta cu atat mai greu cu cat creativitatea echipei este mai crescuta. Ca…
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The highway to success
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Teams are built in various environments. These environment matters as long as you build a project team. But you can control how the team integrates in the environment. I will speak about some items that are important in order to keep a certain group working like a team. Team have…
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Sports in business management
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As I wrote some days ago, I had the pleasure to meet my former handball coach during a business event. He was invited to speak about sports, about the management of the handball teams he managed during last 20 years, leadership and so on. This has been organized like a…
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Mentoring journey
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It seems that once your are nominated a mentor for others, you end your trip as mentee and start another one as mentor. This is not true. It is just the next step of mentee-mentor equation. I have read recently a post on HBR.org about mentorship and started to look…
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Why bother? An argumentation for the ones who want to become managers
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Managing a team of software engineers is easy. Or not? Being a software engineer usually offers good enough compensation, even the opportunity to get a senior position in a company. Then, why bother to be the manager of such a team? This is my first question to whom ever mentions…
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Adopting a tool
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Introducing a tool in an organization of software developers is not an easy thing.You need money, you need a detailed plan, but overall you need to see the new tool working and producing for your organization. Get a sponsor or support from all shareholders! So before announcing the change, get…
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On (non-agile) estimations
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Why are needed? Simply because you also need a deadline from your builder when the house is finished. And for sure, you ask for a delivery date when you go to your tailor. Plus, you ask for a price. No deal is closed without a price indication and a delivery…
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Application development vs Kernels and drivers development
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When speaking about how to develop software, one is usually making the difference between drivers, OS and rest of the application software. It is always about different strategy in developing the software. The lower software layer have to be generic, scalable and easy to use, if possible. The developer is…
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Democracy in software engineering?
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Article first published as Software is Democratic on Technorati. Maybe you have read “Funky Business“. Two Swedish professors, Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordström, are writing about how information open more opportunities for less developed countries. Internet access is cheap, the need for application is great and the offer is high.…