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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Eliminate Stress And Reboot For Change In 2021

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The holidays always add stress, but company transitions heading into the New Year, magnified by the uncertainty we all face due to COVID-19, can send that stress off the charts. Leaders need to expect these reactions and develop a plan based on empathy in order to deal with it. This learning curve can understandably cause panic.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

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Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers. The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. There are other differences. Image source ).

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

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Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.

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[Interview] Louis Carter, Author Of ‘In Great Company: How To Spark Peak Performance By Creating An Emotionally Connected Workplace’

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The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. Our mission is to transform ourselves and our organizations by implementing the best and next practices in organization development and change. At 2 am, finally done, I realized I was locked in without a key or code to get out.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

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by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. We then created private offices for each developer and provided them with catered lunches. We also established a rule: there would be no cap on employee spending on furniture, software and hardware, nor would we have any process to go through to get those things.