How to Use LinkedIn for Your Job Search
Heather pointed to How to Use LinkedIn in Your Job Search. Holy moly. I had no idea.
Agile Job Search, HTP
December 2009
HTP
All Posts Are Now Categorized
When I transitioned to WordPress a couple of years ago, I did not go back and tag all the posts with categories. I have finally done so. Oh, I did not change all the links, so some links to older posts go to the archive for that month. If you find one and email me,
MPD, personal
Fixing One Problem Promotes the Next
I have fixed the how-do-I-get-up-in-the-morning-when-Mark-is-traveling problem. I bought a new Sangean RCR-5 Digital AM/FM Clock Radio with a Sangean Pillow Speaker – #PS-100 – D/S (I love them both) and now, I hear the alarm, no matter what side I sleep on! I don’t have the problem of blasting my good ear with noise that
MPD, project management
“Ideal” Team Size and Ratios
A client recently asked me how many people should be on his agile team. “I have a two-person project here, and a 23-person project there. Do I want two teams, one of 2 and one of 23? Oh, and how many testers do I really need?” I can believe there’s a small and short project
hiring strategy, HTP
Replacing People Is Expensive
Dave Larribee has a great post, The High Cost of Losing a Developer. (Discovered via an ericlandes tweet) Dave suggested it might take a couple of years investment in terms of salary to make a developer productive. My experience is that it takes about 6 months of that developer and some number of months of
management, MPD
Agile Managers Need to Be Generalists
I’ve been working with several management teams recently. They realize they need to change how they are organized in order to really make the agile teams even more productive. For example, what good is a functional manager? If functional managers don’t need to assign tasks and check on how the work is going (the team