Development and Integrity Management by Eli Lopian

Archives for April 2009

Losing your best people

I have just read First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham. I highly recommend it. There are many pearls in the book:
Here is a sure way to lose your best people: Spend all your time helping the strugglers.
If you want to excel, invest in your best. Learn from your best, […]

7 April 2009 | Management for Geeks | 2 Comments

Matrix Communication not Matrix Management

Working in a Team is more then just allowing each team reaching there own goal. I talked before about Team work and how it is possible that by completing your own goal you will hinder the teams goals.
Lets see an example.
Team A wrote an encryption library some time ago, now team B needs encryption […]

6 April 2009 | Management for Geeks | 2 Comments

Integrity in Google

When managing integrity, the manager never talks about what to do. The manager can talk about goals, or even better ask the team what they think their goals should be.
Doing this makes delegation seamless as each employee commits to what they think will be in the best interest of the company. 
Do Google get […]

5 April 2009 | Management for Geeks | No Comments

Signal to Noise Ratio of Delays

Travis, has made some excellent points again, talking about the Signal to Noise Ratio of the ‘delay event raising’.
I have had this problem from a different angle. When asking some employees for their daily/weekly commitments, some employees take the task breakdown too far and have a really long list of stuff that they commit to. […]

2 April 2009 | Management for Geeks | 2 Comments

How to manage agile (self managing) teams

Some time ago I read an interview with the founder of a high-growth web 2.0  company. It went something like this.  “How do build your team?” ”Oh, I get the best people I can and get out of their way”
Ahhhhhh! At one time, this sounded so true. I felt that my managers […]

2 April 2009 | Management for Geeks | 9 Comments

Typemock Isolator goes open source

Due to the overwhelming request by the community, we have received thousands of e-mails from .NET developers, that almost crashed our servers. And after we have had serious discussions with a large software company, we have managed to find a way that will allow us to open source Typemock Isolator for the benefit of the […]

1 April 2009 | .NET Tests | 4 Comments

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