Archives for February 2009
Management for Geeks – Secret Ingredients
In a previous Management for Geeks post, I talked about a hypothetical relationship with John. This discussion actually surfaced the fact that I have a problem getting things done. I tell myself that I must do things, I know that these things are good but all I do is have good excuses.
How many times […]
Zune Meltdown as a Management Problem
Ester Schindler has a post in cio about the 3 lessons developers should learn from the Zune meltdown. She finishes it with:
Quality Assurance doesn’t apply only to fixing code. It applies to fixing broken application development processes, whether it’s because Quality Assurance departments aren’t given the respect and resources they deserve or because developers leave […]
Management for Geeks – Expanding your existence
I always wanted to be a manager. I was sure that I could do it much better then anyone else and I could always see the mistakes of my previous managers.
Some months back, it suddenly hit me, I am a geek, I don’t really know how to manage. Although I have managed in the […]
Management for Geeks: Know where you spend your time
In a previous post I talked about managing myself which I believe must be done before you manage others, if only for the sake of leadership
One of the task that I put on my weekly goals, was to find out where I was spending my time. So I wrote next to each […]
Management for Geeks: Managing myself
Typemock has been growing steadily since the company started and our customer base is growing.
At one point I found myself overwhelmed with the amount of tasks that I have to do. I have done some Time Management courses in the past so I searched the bookshelf for the old training books, I dusted them and […]
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