How do you feel when you hit a big problems, or there is a confrontation? Does it represent an opportunity, or a scary threat that makes you want to avoid the person or situation involved? Where do problems end up in your team – the top or bottom of the pile? Who ultimately fixes them [read more]
First thing this morning, before I did anything I’d planned to do, I found myself checking my emails. One of them came from BIE, an interim management company who had recently come to realise the full impact of email on their working day and had decided to make a change. It reminded me of just [read more]
When I first drafted this post, I was thinking just about the benefits of flexible working space. In many situations I believe these benefits are there to be had, especially where larger teams work together and a level of noise is an acceptable part of the working environment. But what about where concentration, problem solving [read more]
In Peopleware – Productive Projects and Teams - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister the authors describe their experience of software development projects. They highlight just how key people are to the whole IT equation. Through well presented ideas and tales of their experience they demonstrate the massive cost of NOT investing in the management [read more]
