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M166: Challenging tasks and objective appraisal is what keeps top performers in the team

You can acquire a new team member by making a better offer. I mean money. But you can't keep them with money. To keep someone in the team, especially if this is a top performer, you need two things: 1...

29 Mar 20217min

M165: Contribute to the community if you want to do "good"

Just working for a product, creating a product, and making your customers happy doesn't mean being good. It only means being successful, rich, or effective. It's a pretty selfish strategy. If you cons...

17 Mar 20215min

Shift-M/46: Fair Management with Pim De Morree

Our special guest is Pim de Morree from https://corporate-rebels.com/ More about Pim: https://corporate-rebels.com/rebel/pim Twitter: https://twitter.com/pim_de_morree LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin...

17 Mar 202156min

M164: Fixed-Price contracts are much worse than Time&Material

If you outsource part of your software development project to a third-party, you may think that the best type of contract to sign is Fixed-Price: you set the scope, they promise the time and price, th...

1 Mar 20218min

M163: If you as a manager don't punish wrong-doing, the team will punish you

It's your job as a manager in a software team — to identify wrong behavior and find ways to punish it. The best manager, of course, will configure the management system so that it will enforce the pun...

17 Feb 20218min

M161: When punishment is justified in a software team?

Most of us are so scared now of the word "punishment" that all types of mistakes made by programmers remain unnoticed, very often. I believe, there are many types of mistakes that have to be punished....

11 Feb 20213min

M161: It's not the competition that destroys a team, but unfair rules

Many of us believe that competition is not something a software team may need. Moreover, competition may destroy a team killing morale and promoting conflicts. This may happen, but not because the com...

9 Feb 20213min