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The importance of eating together with your co-workers is not negotiable, to me. It’s too important to be left to chance. That’s why we eat together at long tables, not a bunch of little round tables. That’s why when new people start work at the company, they’re not allowed to sit off by themselves in a corner. When we have visitors, they eat together with everyone else. via joelonsoftware.com
The question is whether a trillion dollars is the right amount for individuals to spend marketing themselves. What would happen if people spent it building up a work history instead? On becoming smarter, more flexible, more self-sufficient and yes, able to take more risk because they owe less money... There's no doubt that we need smarter and more motivated people in our organizations. I'm not sure we need them to be better labeled or more accredited. via sethgodin.typepad.com
The overarching goal is to reduce the feedback loop. Features and Scenarios ---------------------- Features and Scenarios are difficult. It is time consuming and draining. Accept this. It is especially painful because we have never done this. The planning phase will be the most difficult phase of any project. Variables and unknowns are at their highest during this phase. Depending on the scope, it is not unusual for a team to spend a whole day for its initial planning session. Then, to spend an hour...
under the pretense that we were empowering employees by letting them work on things they wanted to do. In reality, we were often stepping back just enough to been seen out of the eye's periphery, often jumping back in without warning when things weren't following unsaid directions.... via businessinsider.com
The fact that this code works, let alone that the project is a success, is close to the final proof that God doesn’t exist for the whole craftsmanship debate. via gojko.net
CTO/CIO. Ruby. Rails.
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