Author Archives: Dima Malenko
Your app vs. GMail
When you work in what I call a “controlled environment” it is kind of easy to be dragged into compromises in different areas of quality of your products. As with many other things it does not necessarily happen because you want to compromise, but simply because you can do that.
There are many implicit myths about [...]
Posted in Software engineering Tagged Controlled environment, Corporate apps, Performance, Usability Leave a comment
Metrics that mean
We all know this law coined by Elia Goldratt:
Tell me how you’ll measure me, and I’ll tell you how I’ll behave.
This cause-consequence relationship between incentive and action is very important for managers. As with many other things this can be applied on different levels. Consider the difference of measuring someone by number of oranges sold [...]
Webinar: The Business Driven Software Development
Net Objectives conducts a series of webinars on Business Driven Software Development:
This series provides an introduction on how to achieve Business Agility. Business Agility enables an organization to respond quickly to external forces (such as new market opportunities and competitive forces) as well as to respond quickly to new insights attained internally. While many organizations [...]
The world is flat (and small)
Several years ago on one presentation I said that world became really small: to any place where you might be interested in visiting on business you can get within 24 hours.
Sometimes you do not even need to get there, because world is not only small it is also flat as Thomas Friedman described in his [...]
One simple step to better configuration management
Many say that configuration management is hard. It is. 100% correct, "as the books says" software configuration management is hard. It takes tools, skills, discipline and effort to build and support reliable and effective software configuration management process. It is especially difficult, when there is already some process in place and improvement involves change.
My experience [...]
Positives of negative New Year’s resolutions
By this time most of us (at least those who care to make our lives better) have made their New Year’s resolutions. From what I hear here and there most of these resolutions are around new things which you are going to do this year:
work out regularly
read more books
spend more time with family
improve foreign language [...]
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Change requests: In or Out
Many junior PMs think that Change Requests (in our company we call them Change Orders) always come to project team from the outer space, whenever the client or other stakeholders want to change something, like increase the scope or tighten the schedule. They think that CRs are there to protect the project team from changes [...]
Posted in Management Tagged Change Management, Change Request, Changes, Process, Project management Leave a comment
2 steps to more effective communication
I’m reading Garr Reynolds’ “Prezentation Zen” and his points about efficiency of presentations, which can naturally be translated into efficiency of communication, resonated with my mind:
The presentation would have been greatly improved if the presenter had simply kept two questions in mind in preparing for the talk: What’s my point? And why does it matter?
Now [...]
Posted in Teamwork Tagged Communication, Presentation, Professional behavior, Teamwork Leave a comment
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