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2021-02-21 15:23:22 I'm in Clubhouse iPhone app: yegor256 (no surprise) Open / Comment

2021-02-17 08:53:32 M163: It's your job as a manager in a software team—to identify wrong behavior and find ways to punish it. The best manager, of course, will configure the management system so that it will enforce the punishment. Average managers use guilt and emotions as tools for that. Bad managers are scared to even think about punishment. Watch it. Open / Comment

2021-02-14 09:29:55 I'm thinking about creating a private club of people who want me to be their mentor. I regularly receive emails of such kind: they ask me to give them some advice, mostly related to their career choices. Here is the prototype: https://github.com/yegor256/techiends

The idea is simple: I pick the most promising candidates and invest my time into them. Later, they do the same with new members of the club. Eventually we'll have a pretty strong group of people who think alike and ready to help each other.

If you are interested in joining (pay attention, it's not free), text me: @yegor256. Open / Comment

2021-02-11 12:01:34 M162: Most of us are so scared now of the word "punishment" that all types of mistakes made by programmers remain unnoticed, very often. I believe, there are many types of mistakes that have to be punished. Everybody will win: the project, the people, and our customers. Watch it. Open / Comment

2021-02-10 10:56:04 New post on my blog: https://www.yegor256.com/2021/02/10/dataization.html Open / Comment

2021-02-10 09:12:21 We've finished the review of all 23 papers submitted to ICCQ and selected only six of them for publication. The selected papers do seem to be interesting, check their abstracts. This event is really unique for Russia, for a number of reasons. First, it's done in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society. Second, its Program Committee is independent and international: MIT, Microsoft, Univ of California, Univ of Postdam, etc. Third, it's sponsored by Huawei, Kaspersky, Yandex and SberCloud (key players in Russian tech market) and by HSE Univ, MIPT, MSU, and ISP RAS (key academic orgs in Moscow). The event will happen in online mode in Zoom and will be streamed in YouTube. I encourage you to register anyway, here. Open / Comment

2021-02-09 18:55:00 M161: Many of us believe that competition is not something a software team may need. Moreover, competition may destroy a team killing morale and promoting conflicts. This may happen, but not because the competition is a bad idea, but due to the misconfiguration of its rules. Watch it. Open / Comment

2021-02-07 21:17:36 New episode of Shift-M podcast:

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2021-02-02 23:16:16 New post on my blog: https://www.yegor256.com/2021/02/02/greed-based-planning.html Open / Comment

2021-02-01 18:39:32 M160: Traditionally, you tell your team what needs to be done and then force them (or motivate) to do it. You basically try to make your plans their plans. It works sometimes in some industries, but doesn't work with us programmers: we are too spoiled and lazy. I suggest a better planning principle: you let your people decide how many awards they are going to earn and then build your plans on top of their selfish desires. Watch it. Open / Comment