Making a new office into a place you can actually work in is more of a challenge than I had originally thought.
Even something as trivial as putting together the chairs that we’ve bought at a local DIY store is a daunting task.

While I was working on the chair, Benny, Arik and Ilay were [...]

I’ve been talking today to a friend of mine about her working environment and something struck me as odd. It seems to me that we have been using the wrong criteria when deciding which people should share a com.
My friend is a developer working at a large software company and is sitting in a room [...]

This is an anecdote that I used to explain to someone who is a developer and wanted to become a manager, what is the most important thing in being a manager.
The project is in trouble, you need to meet an insane deadline and you see that your people are falling behind. You want to lend [...]

We should all be reminded of the Pareto Principle now and then.
It sums up in a simple concept :
Use 80% of your time to do the most important 20% of the work to get the most valuable 80% of the results you seek.

I sat down today with one of the (slightly) less experienced team leads for a long conversation (or maybe it was a monolog) about planning ahead. For some reason or other I can’t seem to convince him that planning for the future, and I mean more than 2 weeks ahead, is important and it is [...]

Quite a lot has been said recently about micro ISV’s. This term coined by Eric Sink refers to one-man-crew (ring any bells anybody?) companies that produce software products usually under some sort of shareware licence. Since then a whole community rose around the subject and it seems that every geek out there is considering to [...]