Few days ago, Phillip Calçado from Thoughtworks came to our office and gave a presentation on Agile Web Development.

I am pleasantly surprised with the vast array of books that are now available to our RA library. Never knew they own that many books.
I’ve read parts of this interesting book: 201 Ways to Turn Any Employee Into a Star Performer by Casey Fitts Hawley
Some stuffs that I get out of the book (things that [...]

If I were in charge of a team/company, how would I rally your troop in the wake of people leaving?
What do I need to do to contain the damage? Not only damage to the business but more importantly the damage to the team’s morale.
How would I dispel the compounded negativity? How would I prevent [...]

When things go wrong within a project, I often find people start pointing finger to other people. I guess it’s human nature to always find scapegoat rather than owning up.
From developers point of view, management is the usual target to blame. We tend to think management is not competent, not able to stand up [...]

I stumbled across SSW’s rules to better team members and rules to better project.
I haven’t read much of the later, but I read most of the points of the first one. There are good points there, although most of them are just common sense. Having said that, common sense is not common, is it?
I would [...]