Ship and iterate. The companies that are the fastest at this process will win. — from “How Google Works”
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You suck at technical interviews
You are bad at giving technical interviews. Yes, you. You’re looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company. Without changing anything about your applicant pool, you can hire different people and your company will do better and you will enjoy your job more. A must read for …
When the “Casual” Workplace Is Confusing
Anna Lewis, Senior Recruiter at Viget: Casualness at the office starts with what we wear. The casual dress code common to start-ups and creative agencies—T-shirts, jeans, etc—seems to defy the very term “code”. When it’s time for a client meeting or a presentation, we start looking positively “nice” or “dressy” and, mysteriously, we all seem …
Speed in Software Development
Every single CEO of any IT company wants to build software faster. Time is the most expensive and valuable resource. You can’t waste it on re-work, refactoring, meetings, physical activities. Right? It depends… Many companies grow up, slow down, and die. Good development pace is essential for surviving. Unfortunately options 1 (Extreme Sprint) and 2 …
On Web Development and Education
This blogpost is sparked by a conversation with, and blogpost by Joris, a lecturer IMD at Thomas More. Every now and then I have a chat with a colleague lecturer, be it one from the Technical University I teach at (HUB-KAHO) or another TU (Howest, Thomas More, KDG, etc). A recurring theme in our conversations …
The relentless pace of change
Extract from a breathtaking 24ways-piece by Christopher Murphy: On 21 May 2013, I woke in a hospital bed feeling exhausted, disorientated and ashamed. The day before, I had tried to kill myself. We work in a fast-paced industry: few others, if any, confront the daily challenges we face. The landscape we work within is characterised …
Flexible Hours • Inside GitHub
Don’t agree wholeheartedly with the flexible hours (you need some time where the whole team is together), but do agree with the unlimited paid time off policy. I for one have a job with flexible/concentrated hours which result in a 1.5 days “not behind the desk” where I can plan my time in a manner …
How to Work with Engineers
Engineers are the magicians of the crew, who, with a few taps of their fingers, take the plans and the pixels and Voila! A working implementation. As a designer, how do you best keep up with their meme-savvy, self-deprecating, script-loving ways? Keep reading. And remember: Want to make stuff happen? All you need to do …
The franticness of working in the web business
Some interesting quotes by Richard Davey from his talk HTML5 Gaming on the Mobile Web is now live on Adobe TV: Things you’re told not possible today might be by the end of the project and Be prepared to un-learn what you know every 6 months Think of new features that appear in a canary/beta …
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What if money didn’t matter
Or why I — two times already when compared to the job before — took a financial step down when switching jobs. If you love doing what you do, the loss of money is overly compensated by joyfulness. Also: if you don’t like doing what you’re doing anymore, then switch jobs (or go on a …