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How to avoid status meetings

1 November 2020

Meeting culture is that ubiquitous pest that stains corporate life. Middle managers often have their agenda covered with back-to-back meetings like some kind of twisted mosaic. And in these days...

What is Middle Management?

17 October 2020

One morning, the CEO of a large company wakes up with a great idea. She gathers her Department Heads and the ball starts rolling. A few months later, an engineer...

Distributed Team Leader

1 September 2020

Now that distributed teams are finally adopted by the mainstream, productivity soars and work-life balance is better. Most developers, designers and writers are happy to be back in control of...

Going Remote Overnight

29 March 2020

An emergency kit for newly distributed teams Those that know me, know I'm somewhat of a remote work advocate. For years, I've been praising the steady evolution away from the centralized...

A case for individuality

24 September 2019

A team is a network of individuals working towards a common goal. There's a lot of literature about the teams and the networks and the goals, but I would like...

Async hard sales: A recruiter’s guide to cold calling

18 September 2019

Yin vs Yang, Cats vs Dogs, Recruiters vs Developers. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Developers are in high demand and...

Staffing on up

21 July 2019

The Mythical Man-month is 40 years old. It's a timeless classic for software development management and its pages are often condensed into Brooks's Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project...