From the category archives:

Management

New Generation workers and Email

January 4, 2009General

I had to shake my head when I read this Accenture survey on the demands of the Millennial Generation. The usual ‘demands’ of wanting to choose their technology, insisting on state-of-the-art technology, not wanting to seek corporate approval, requiring new communication channels, etc all came up.
It seemed odd that a survey like this would [...]

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Werner Vogels – Chief of the Year 2008

December 22, 2008General

Amazon’s CTO – Werner Vogels – has been awarded the Information Week Chief of the Year title. He’s quickly given the credit to his team of course, legend that he is.
Now, it’s easy to be cynical of awards – it seems that sometimes companies/twitter abusers/magazines/etc just create them as a marketing device – but [...]

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Features, Benefits, Results (FBR)

October 17, 2008Main

I thought I’d try to simplify my previous post on how to survive in tough economic times.
Here’s how I see it:

During the good times (eg when every second IT company is planning an IPO) you can focus on features. Features are really all about comfort and convenience, and in good times people lap them [...]

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Finding opportunities in hard times

October 13, 2008Main

You may recall my post ‘The Death of Gen Y’ back in May when I talked about the coming IT crash. In that post I also suggested attributes of companies that would survive during the tough times. And I think those points still stand. But let’s consider an additional area…
First, let’s find an opportunity and [...]

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Grant Holliday on Blockers

March 4, 2008Management

A great little post by Grant on how to deal with ‘Blockers’.
I loved the anecdote about a company policy for running virus scan on everyone’s machine at 11am daily.
Technorati Tags: Corporate life

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ELCOM: Career Plans for Developers – Part II

February 4, 2008Elcom

Further to my post about career plans for developers at Elcom, I wanted to mention the approach of encouraging staff to build their personal profiles.

It can be summed up in this attitude:

Your job (as a developer and employee) is to be so good that you are being chased by head-hunters all the time.

My job (as [...]

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ELCOM: Career plans for Developers – Part I

January 30, 2008Elcom

Part of my brief at Elcom is to look after all the developers (ie people management). This is something I enjoy, especially when seeing developers grow and improve themselves.
During November and December I sat down with each of my staff and started preparing their career plans. It is their responsibility to work out their goals [...]

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