Employers ask for elite performers, but they should be careful – they could get what they ask for… If they find an elite performer, do they have the elite...
0 replies - 7747 views - 04/23/13 by Anders Abel in Articles
The PHP jobs market is hot, very many people find it hard to recruit the skilled staff that they need to achieve the goals of their organization. I meet a wide...
1 replies - 2874 views - 04/23/13 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles
Everyone is talking about the Yahoo! memo ending work from home for employees. When a company is in crisis, as Yahoo! is, actions like these, that don’t seem...
1 replies - 7056 views - 04/22/13 by Krishna Kumar in Articles
Lately, there's been a ton of discussion of seriously awful behavior by some dudes at PyCon. People have been fired. People have gotten upset. And there are...
0 replies - 4897 views - 04/22/13 by David Pollak in Articles
The answer is (of course): ”It depends.”
But first, a puzzle:
There are lots of teams in small companies and start-ups who are...
0 replies - 3660 views - 04/20/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
One of the most difficult parts of software development is adapting to
change. It's a guarantee that the concepts, ideas, and possibly the
point of the...
3 replies - 4714 views - 04/17/13 by Isaac Taylor in Articles
What is Temenos?
Temenos is a Greek word for a transformational container, such as a cut off piece of land dedicated to a king or god. It is a contained...
0 replies - 1024 views - 04/16/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles
What scientists call distributed control is usually called empowerment by management consultants. However, some experts don’t like the term. The word seems...
0 replies - 914 views - 04/08/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
Most people like short things: short tasks, short emails,
learn-how-to-program-java-in-24-hours books, lose-weight-in-a-month
video guides. Modern society...
0 replies - 1475 views - 04/08/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles
John Resig on asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
If you didn’t get the message from our link roundup a few weeks ago when jQuery creator John Resig...
0 replies - 3348 views - 04/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
In his prestigious career, Ward Cunningham has worn many hats: inventor of the Wiki, co-creator of Extreme Programming, Code For a Better World Fellow, CTO,...
0 replies - 3913 views - 04/05/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles
I’ve been programming professionally since 1988, so I’ve been around quite a few developers in my career. There seems to be a lot of moments lately...
0 replies - 2173 views - 04/01/13 by Kin Lane in Articles
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards...
0 replies - 1855 views - 03/28/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles
For years I’ve assumed that when Agile principles succeeded at a team level they would naturally spread to other teams in the organisation until...
0 replies - 1031 views - 03/27/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
Take any opportunity to be pro-active
Q. If we gave you carte blanche to work on anything for six months, what would you work on?
There is no right answer to...
0 replies - 699 views - 03/26/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
