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A Dev that Cared about Winning
Programming is cool, designing large systems is cool, working with great people is cool, but everything becomes pretty irrelevant if you aren’t winning. If you product is not successful, if you don’t...
View ArticleGarbage Collection (of Outdated Systems)
I envy greatly all the newly minted start-ups. They have no legacy systems to support and all possibilities open. But if you are a company running for several years with steady source of income you end...
View ArticleManualization
In order to automate a process, you should first know very well how to do it manually. Only when you have a good understanding of individual steps, inputs, and outputs it’s possible to write a computer...
View ArticleManaging Trust
Productivity of a programmer should be measured by how much business value he or she delivers. Since measuring productivity in terms of business value is close to impossible, most managers measure...
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The Higher the Leverage Point the More Resistance
The higher the leverage point, the more the system will resist changing it. When you’re in the trenches, experiencing first hand all the deficiencies of an organization, it is common to think that you...
View ArticleThe Mobile Generation
If I would found a start-up today I wouldn’t rent an office but would let people work from wherever they please. It is not only that freedom of location represents a tremendous advantage in hiring, but...
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Succession Planning
If you want to get promoted, develop a successor. This is a practice that helped make Jack Welch into one of the best managers of all times when he was leading transformation of General Electric into...
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Kids
February 2nd, 2014. The day of the worst sleet in the history of Slovenia. We had Todd visiting and to show him around Slovenia I organized a trip to Škocjan caves. The underground canyon carved by the...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Passive Meeting Attendance
At a weekly meeting we had a few days ago a proposal was put forward to invite another colleague to start attending the meeting as a passive observer. In principle the proposal made a lot of sense as...
View ArticleSeeing Things from the Other Side of the Pond
One of the more complex things we have going on at Zemanta is working across nine time zones. Especially in my new role of VP of Product Development I cooperate a lot with people from our New York and...
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