M32: Micromanagement happens when tasks are big and motivation is not explicit
Do you know what micromanagement is? It's when your manager is telling you exactly what you have to do right now in order to achieve the results he or she wants. The micromanager doesn't trust you and...
8 Feb 201914min
M30: Pay equality and smaller pay gap mean only one thing: the management is weak
The average salary of american workers is growing 1% every year, while the paygap between similar jobs is decreasing. What do I think about this trend? Does it sound like people are getting more every...
6 Feb 201910min
M29: Instead of finding the right architect, find a way to manage the architect right
In order to do the project right, you need the right person, right? Wrong! This type of thinking doesn't help at all and only leads to failures. It's the management that needs to be "right," not its p...
5 Feb 201913min
M28: Microtasking works only if you can decompose tasks, PDD helps you do exactly that
Microtasking is a great management method, provided you can break your larger scope into smaller micro-tasks. Who should do this decomposition and how much time will work by itself will take? This que...
4 Feb 201912min
M27: Microtasking enables more accurate and precise estimates of a software project's future
You know how much I love microtasking and paying-by-result, but you may wonder how can we estimate the future of our projects if we deal with very small pieces of work. I made an attempt to explain it...
1 Feb 201912min
M26: Don't be afraid of your programmers, just get ready to fight when they get rich on your idea
How do you protect your business ideas from potential theft by your own programmers? Do you sign NDAs? Do you hire only those who won't steal? Well, I believe you should do the opposite. Don't be scar...
31 Jan 20197min
M25: Dear investors, Zerocracy is not an on-demand software shop, think bigger!
I've got a meeting with a potential investor a few days ago, which asked me to help him develop some software, in order to prove that Zerocracy is an investable business. I refused and here is the exp...
30 Jan 20196min
M24: Artificial Intelligence is not a thinking machine, but a powerful calculator
We claim that Zerocracy is an AI bot that is capable of managing people better than a human being. But very often I hear questions: How is it possible to make a computer so smart? Is AI so powerful al...
29 Jan 20195min
