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During my professional career I had met many managers - some of them were good, some were pretty bad, some are still a question mark for me, but if you asked me about something the most common ("denominator"), there’d be only one response: 95% of them had a...
If anyone asked me about the future of .NET precisely a year ago, I’d surely answer that it’s as bright and shiny as possible. Constantly improving modern development language (C#), best IDE on the market (regardless of platform - Visual Studio). But a lot has happened within last 12...
According to popular belief (especially in some service-oriented companionships…) project manager’s main duty is to be a slap b*tch for project sponsor. Joint business lunches full of professional asslicking, constant "governance", assuring that everything is ok (even if it’s clearly not) and preparing tons...
If you grasped the direct reference to fighter-pilot movies or "Strike Commander" classic PC game, you’ve probably instinctively tried to check your radar. Good guess, but this time it’s not about "Top Gun" but "ThoughtWorks Technology Radar" that has been updated...
People tend to like the shortcuts. There’s nothing really surprising about that - actually modern corporate standards favor people who are goal-oriented and "know what they want". I’m not gonna condemn this path (as I find myself a pretty ambitious and impatient individual as well …), but...
> * And what method are you using on your project? * Oh, it’s Scrum. But we’ve improved it a bit … Sounds familiar? Yea, I believe everyone has met “scrumming project” at least once. Shamefully in 90% of cases, people just use “Scrum” as a label. They’ve just started...