M71: Motivating programmers by equity or profit sharing is a bad idea, it doesn't work
Many startup founders think that by sharing equity with programmers or giving them annual bonuses according to the overall result of the company, they can motivate them to work better. This is a wrong...
12 Apr 20192min
M69: Write tutorials instead of training and teaching
Every time someone comes to me for a piece of information, I ask myself: "Why? Isn't this information available in our documentation?" And if the answer is "No," I try to improve the documentation, to...
10 Apr 20192min
M70: A software team without conflicts can't produce anything of a good quality
Very often my readers complain about me saying that programmers must be in conflict with testers, or code reviewers in conflict with programmers, and so on. They claim that a good software team must h...
9 Apr 20195min
M68: Is it necessary to be a full-timer first, in order to become a freelancer? Yes, why not!
Being a freelancer and charging $100 per hour, switching projects every few months and living in Bali, sounds like a dream for many programmers. But the question is, how to get there? Where can one ge...
9 Apr 20193min
M67: The future of software development has no offices and no companies, only projects
Building teams that were supposed to stay together for many years, was a good strategy, many years ago. Not anymore. The reality of the modern software development market demands us to work with remot...
8 Apr 20198min
M66: If you will manage programmers the way Google does it, you will lose
The current situation on the software development market it terrible: programmers are spoiled by large salaries and very high demand. They know that their managers can't really do anything with them, ...
5 Apr 20195min
M65: If you need to learn the code around your microtask, don't do it! Create a new ticket.
When a microtask arrives to you, very often you may need some additional information, which is not specified in the task description. Your first intent would be to go and find that information, even i...
4 Apr 20195min
M64: You want your programmers to be your enemies? Pay them monthly.
Most managers and business owners believe that programmers are interested in their ideas, in their business, in their vision. They expect programmers to work because they share a global vision. In rea...
2 Apr 20196min
