Things to Know - Who owns the Technical Debt

A fresh release for us is due next week, have to say it has been put up with a serious effort of around 8 months with a lot of hard work and agility and comes with a lot of development contribution that is beyond coding and testing. Now that we are almost there, I have been reviewing the bugs created...

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Development : What does Quality mean? - 2

Continuing our efforts on working and understanding quality let's now focus on the other side of quality for developers and development teams. What we should do before, after and during the development cycle's is the bright known side of the coin, but to be honest you may be well equipped to write the best products, but quality is not just ensured by writing very good code, planning better, reviewing.....

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Development : What does Quality mean?

Let me begin by saying quality is over-rated and under utilized, under practised and over spoken. Most people do not understand the core meaning of quality.. for many quality means a bug free software, for others quality means anything working as expected.. it may be combinations of it, but been into...

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Things I learnt about Project Management

1. Managing one’s wants is the most powerful skill a person can learn2. Projects success is dependant on executor's attitude's and not just effort3. Budget should be the last thing to think of4. Planning is over hyped, under utilized5. The only time quality comes into action is when you are not reviewed6. Manager's like engineers who fix things quickly.7. Between the release date and code freeze lot...

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How to find an angry employee

Do you have an angry employee at work? Do you know how to figure out one? Well here are the quickies to start with and with your help we can build a good list here, of course we can then use the list to figure out the reasons and also find answers and solutions to them but let's say that these symptoms don't need to be merely due to conflicts they can also be due to pure unhappiness, unwillingness...

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Working with Talents

I recently asked our leads a question "Who are your Star team members and who are your mediocre performers?" the objective of this question was to put a clear vision on how to map the average performers to be the star team members. I am very sure with your teams you may be facing the same issue, a whole...

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Happiness quotient, you and work

I had a classic debate a day ago with one of the colleagues talking about Happiness at work. He mentioned that the happiness drivers for him or anyone are good work, good company, good money. When I asked what is replaceable, he said as often 1 of them has to be compromised... Misery eh? So being into a renowned company, earning great money bring smiles to your professional face? I am not sure.. the...

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