So, how do you assume management responsibility for a group of 40 people in a foreign country, most of whom you’ve never met before? Th...
Note: By posting this, I run the risk of people calling me a "meta-blogger" again (see below). But I can live with that. At lea...
Some time ago I wrote a blog post on how to do resource planning when you’re dealing with multiple small projects. It seems to be a tou...
Our company has its main office in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and a second one in Zhytomyr (Ukraine). On Twitter you might have read th...
I must write.Though I’m not in the mood for writing.I’d rather read my Peter F. Hamilton book.But still, I write. Why? It is called s...
In 4 Top Posts on Discipline in Software Development I told you about some disciplinary problems I was facing and the articles that I fou...
Tomorrow (or today if I compensate for last year's leap day) this blog is celebrating its first anniversary. Exactly one year ago I w...
My cunning plan to dominate the software development blogosphere seems to be working. Authors of competing blogs are all lining up and be...
Hiring smart software developers is not easy. If you’re not careful you might end up hiring a bunch of moronic mandrills, like I di...
In my earlier blog post I Follow My Rules, You Follow Yours I wrote that team members don't necessarily have to follow the same rules...
In my relentless efforts to dominate the software development blogosphere, I am trying to find out how to beat all competitors. As you ca...
A while ago I wrote about the team building exercise I regularly organize. It comes down to this: I invite some colleagues over for dinne...