Innovation and Treating Developers Like Adults
Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?-- Tom Smykowski photo...

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The Pomodoro Technique™
Great way to sell kitchen timers

InfoQ: "Flirting" With Your Customers
All over the world, there are classes that teach people how to flirt. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. While it may...

Una settimana Agile
Se conosco il significato della parola “Agile” nel mio settore, lo devo in primissima battuta a Lorenzo Massacci, che sta facendo un enorme sforzo insieme alla sua azienda per passare da un metodo di lavoro prevalentemente classico (”a cascata”)...

Team Size Can Be the Key to a Successful Project
In this research, we set out to find the optimum staffing for a specific application domain and size regime. In this work we will define optimum staff size as the team size most likely to achieve the highest productivity, the shortest schedule, the...

5 Tips on How to Emphasize Action Over Inertia : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
"1. Act without conviction.2. Prototype your ideas.3. Get out of your own way.4. Replace update meetings with “huddles.”5. Create testaments to progress."