M95: Only lazy and immature programmers are afraid of penalties and punishment
Very often I hear managers saying that if you even try to punish programmers for their mistakes they will quit and you will have no team. This may only happen to junior or lazy programmers. Profession...
20 Kesä 20196min
M94: It is impossible to make a full-timer deliver results, unless they want it
Our bosses what us to be productive, effective, and deliver results. However, the question is whether they can make us do it or not. When they hire us as full-timers and pay us for a full month of our...
20 Kesä 20196min
M93: To become a good programmer you have to find a project that rejects your mistakes
Junior programmers usually don't know where to start in order to practice, learn how to code, and work with professionals. They can't find the right project to contribute to. I'm suggesting you find a...
17 Kesä 20195min
M92: We in Zerocracy use Boost Factor to help architect motivate programmers
Sometimes we have tasks in our projects, which nobody wants to complete. They are difficult or impossible to decompose, or simply too complex. What do we do in order to motivate our programmers to wor...
12 Kesä 20195min
M91: Full-timers want to look smart, freelancers want to deliver results
Most full-timers are afraid of showing their bosses that they find help at StackOverflow, because their managers expect them to be smart and know everything about the technologies they work with. Who ...
11 Kesä 20194min
M89: Deliver your trust continuously, not discrete
Most companies and managers believe that they have to check people before they let them get into the team, through a number of very complex interviews. After that, they trust their programmers and hop...
31 Touko 20195min
M90: RUP is a framework, Agile is a philosophy; just like Zerocracy and XDSD
I often hear a question: what is better, Agile or RUP? This question doesn't make a lot of sense since Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a framework with a large set of artifacts, processes, roles, an...
31 Touko 20197min
M88: If you are working on a prototype for longer than two weeks, you are doing it wrong
Technical debt is a huge problem, when it is, well ... huge. What usually happens is this: we start a project, we work on its "prototype," we wait until it is fully ready, and then we start thinking a...
28 Touko 20195min
