M39: Meeting are evil and must be replaced by a disciplined process of decision making
Meetings are a great solution for lazy, immature, stupid, and non-professional software developers, architects, and their managers. The more you grow, the more professional you become, the bigger will...
19 Helmi 201912min
M38: Request-for-Proposal (RfP) is how the matchmaking process works in Zerocracy
When you are ready to delegate your software project to Zerocracy, you will need an architect, who will guide you through the bootstrap steps, will understand the requirements, will build the team of ...
18 Helmi 201911min
M37: It's only your fault if the requirements you are working with are not clear enough!
It happens very often: the requirements we have to work with are not clear. Customers, requirements providers, product owners, managers, architects, and other programmers are simply too lazy to specif...
15 Helmi 20199min
M36: Protect yourself against stupid managers—become their good friend!
You remember my recommendations for a programmer if the management is weak and stupid, right? Don't be loyal. Instead, use their resources for your own good. But what do you do if you are the architec...
14 Helmi 201911min
M35: A transition from office slavery to pay-by-result model is very expensive
Very often startup founders and CTOs are asking me how and whether it's possible to transition from traditional full-time management to pay-by-result and microtasking, which we practice in Zerocracy. ...
13 Helmi 20198min
M31: What do you do with junior programmers who can't write good code? You train them.
Multitasking is something only senior developers can deal with, because it's stressful, results-focused, and demands a lot of skills, which junior developers simply don't have. However, the question i...
12 Helmi 201911min
M34: Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) are two entirely different things!
I know so many testers who think that they are QA engineers. They are so wrong that I decided to record a video about that. Testing is about breaking the software and finding bugs. QA is about watchin...
12 Helmi 20195min
M33: No don't need to be loyal to your employers, use them for your own good!
Proper management is very rare, happens only in some companies. Others are treating people like office slaves, expecting them to do stay in the office instead of delivering results. What do you do whe...
11 Helmi 201913min
