Category: team management

  • Can you keep your talents?

    Can you keep your talents?

    The war for talent is not over. It’s just started. Talents are hard to get and even harder to keep. I wrote about ciclicity and pipelines. Each team has a certain development cycles. And each team member has its own development cycle. If these cycles are overlapped, than everyone is…

  • How to describe the equation of your team.

    Depending on your business case, you can imagine a high fluctuation or a great retention. You never know what can happen tomorrow. I get used to this in the last years of crisis.Maybe you remember my opinion that the teams are fluid. Having a great team at a certain moment…

  • Interviewing software developers

    A summary translation of two older posts about interviews. I had tens of interviews with young software developers. The market in my town is quite hard and I had to imagine which types of candidates I could have. Some of the candidates have a genuine interest in money, others in…

  • Pipelines (Conductele)

    Cat de lungi sau scurte sunt ciclurile de viata ale unei echipe? Cum este legat ciclul de viata al unui produs de ciclul de viata al unei echipe? Cand trebuie reinventata echipa si cand trebuie reinventat produsul? Nimeni nu poate prevedea cu exactitate ciclul de viata al unei echipe. Cele…

  • Interviuri cu ingineri

    Revin, dupa mai bine de un an cu inca un post… De cand ma ocup de o echipa de embedded software engineers, am facut multe interviuri si am vazut diverse tipuri de oameni. Unii sunt interesati de bani, altii de o cariera, dar sunt destul de multi preocupati sincer de…