Archives for April 2009
I want solutions not problems
Jurgen wrote a post: Empowered, Whether You Like It or Not about decisions being backfired to management.
I agree that a good manager cannot afford to have a team that needs to ask the manager how to solve problems. It has nothing to do with influence or control, it has to do with flow.
Just […]
Stop Designing for Testability – Revisited
I just received an email about a comment on my article on Code Project, Stop Designing for Testability. After nearly 3 years it is still getting comments.
The article is about the tension and balance between TDD/DI and OOD.
While looking at the article I am excited to see how much we have progressed, with the AAA […]
I am being followed
I received an email from a few people who want to follow me on twitter. The problem being that I don’t have a twitter account.
Instead of letting them down, I creates an account and followed them back. Now I have to start twittering.
My twitter is http://twitter.com/EliLopian
Create Exceptional Developers
A lot has been talked about how to become a great developer. They are all good ideas. I think that as a manager it is our job to grow our team and create great developers. I talked about creating challenges to do this, in a previous post. But what exactly are those challenges?
Here is a […]
Managing the support
We take our support really seriously here at Typemock, our customers see and talk about this great value. But there is much more to support then fixing bugs.
We learn from our support how our customers are using the application and what are the pit falls. From every case we proactively try to find out […]
Presentation at the Tel Aviv Entrepreneurs Meetup Group
I gave a short presentation to the Tel Aviv Entrepreneurs Meetup Group. It was great fun. I wanted to share one tip: To build a great team you cannot bring in someone who can do things that you can’t. This lead to many passionate people saying exactly the opposite. “You must hire people who are […]
Accountable and Responsible
Jurgen is debating the difference between Accountable and Responsible. It is great to see that we are thinking about the same things. There must be a reason for this.
I think that the debate is important because there are many times when a discussion with an employee ends with: “Yup, I didn’t reach my goals, […]
Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain
Jason Yip has a great post: Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain
Retrospectives should not be about sharing pain and venting. Retrospectives should be about getting better.
So true.
How do we make sure that we are a problem solving culture and not a complaining one? We use the clearing technique. Every problem […]
Manager – Create obstacles for your team
I asked before about how to manage self directed teams, most responses where that the manage should remove obstacles in the way of the team.
I think the opposite. A great manager should never remove obstacles, big or small, on the contrary, a great manager must create obstacles and challenging his employees to grow every […]
Home Movies and Integrity
I have been taking home movies for over 10 years now, I now have an HDD camera, but I still have loads of Mini-DV’s hanging around the house. I have always wanted to edit the material. I have searched for the right tool ages ago, but the moment that I chose my tool (Sony […]
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