Archive for the ‘Human Resources’ Category

Project Managers are like Walruses

We care deeply about our buckets! A friend of mine who works as doing software QA told me once that if he charges to the wrong time code he typically has four or more people yell at him. For Developers, I understand just how annoying it is to remember the many different bill codes that [...]

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Benefits of Resource Leveling

From time to time, you might find yourself a little bit overwhelmed in your work. Instead of delegating some of that extra work out, most of us tend to try and use every trick in the book to get the job done ourselves, such as the one featured in the short, six-second video below. That’s [...]

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The Right Tool for the Right Task

I’ve been asked a couple times now to do Wireframing. I know it’s an incredibly valuable skill, and that people who can do it well are 10x more valuable for web development projects than those that can’t. Unfortunately however, I tend to not be so hot at it. I don’t have the years of study [...]

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I told you how to do it for a reason!

We’ve all let loose that exasperated cry at one point or another. Angry to the point of speaking in tongues, and tearing our hear out in large clumps as we hop up and down, frumiating worse than a hot and bothered bandersnatch at a bikini modeling contest. We feel outraged, incensed, and a whole bunch [...]

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What nice pans you must have

“Dude, that gantt chart looks incredible! What did you use to make it?!” “A $160,000 business education.” Yeah, okay, so I exaggerated a little bit: between merit scholarships and community college classes it was probably only about $50k. Be that as it may… There’s a classic example for this: complimenting the chef on his utensils when he [...]

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(Un)Motivational thought for the day

If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. If somethings not worth doing, it’s worth procrastinating, whining, complaining, delaying, and otherwise making a complete ass-hattery of the situation. Seriously though, I guarantee there will be a time when you are given a complete crap task to do. I mean, so completely pointless and below you [...]

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