M160: Traditional top-down planning doesn't work, try better alternative
Traditionally, you tell your team what needs to be done and then force them (or motivate) to do it. You basically try to make your plans their plans. It works sometimes in some industries, but doesn't...
1 Feb 20215min
M159: If your objective is to keep the team intact, competition is not for you
Competition in a team works only if are ready to lose some part of your team, and very soon. If you don't want that to happen and your main objective is to keep the team intact and alive — competition...
28 Jan 20216min
N3: Cyberpunk, русские хакеры, Твиттер и Трамп, цензура и ИИ, и Биткоин
Video is here: https://youtu.be/nenmlYhNM50
22 Jan 20211h 14min
M157: We must measure productivity, but using the right metrics only
Measuring the productivity of programmers to many of us seems like a dangerous process, which leads to a lack of value delivered. This is true, but only if you use the wrong metrics to do your measure...
14 Jan 20218min
M156: Competition doesn't contradict with collaboration
Many management experts believe that competition kills collaboration and that's why a software team must not encourage their people to compete. Instead, they should collaborate and help each other. I ...
11 Jan 20217min
M155: The best and the only way to reward top talents is recognition through fair competition
It's a well-known "fact": best programmers are 30x times more effective than their average colleagues. How do you reward them? You pay them 30x salaries. Of course, you don't. However, they do deserv...
28 Dec 20205min
M154: Proper competition prevents cheating in a software team
If there is no competition in your team, everybody will soon be interested in making deals and cheating. The only simple rule that may prevent this from happening: when I win, you lose. If such a rule...
24 Dec 20205min
Shift-M/44: Allen Holub on management, motivation, and estimations
Shift-M podcast: https://www.yegor256.com/shift-m.html Allen Holub personal website: https://holub.com/ Allen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenholub Video is here: https://youtu.be/8OKdilyNOIg
22 Dec 20201h 4min
