Tag Archives: Teamwork
SOA Manifesto
Recently I discovered that during 2nd International SOA Symposium they published SOA Manifesto. It follows the spirit of the famous Agile Manifesto, which provoked many discussion and debates over the actual meaning of the statements of that manifesto.
(Not) surprisingly there are many other manifestos related to software. Here are some to name a few:
The GNU [...]
Don't be a manager like that
If you are a manager, you’ve got everything to prevent this sign from ever appearing near the entrance to you department’s area.
Professionals are always around you
Today I had an inspiring chat with one of fellow QA engineers about one of the systems we recently developed. I had a new requirement in mind that triggers complete re-test of the system.
Me: How long does it take to re-test our solution?
QA: Any new features or components?
Me: No, “just” another communication protocol.
QA: Give me [...]
Be reasonable
Be reasonable with your requests. Be reasonable with your responses.
Human actions (at least, in professional and business fields) are mostly driven by reasons. People never (or very-very rarely) do something out of spontaneous wish at work.
Yes, you can have a spontaneous idea, but it, anyway, will serve some particular purpose. Idea tries to solve a [...]
Critique is not easy
When people communicate they exchange facts, ideas and opinions.
When they hear something which is not a sure fact like “At present, Earth orbits the Sun” they will either agree or disagree. As Paul Graham suggests this is a natural behavior. But disagreeing itself is somewhat simple: nothing remains after the conversation except for changed or [...]
The Project Management Podcast
I’ve already mentioned several times that I absolutely love Advanced Selling Podcast since the first episode I’ve listened to. One day I said to myself: “If there is selling podcast, there should be project management podcast”. I went to Google and found the Project Management Podcast. I’ve downloaded a whole bunch of episodes some dating [...]
2 steps to more effective communication