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M37: It's only your fault if the requirements you are working with are not clear enough! Feb 15, 2019

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It happens very often: the requirements we have to work with are not clear. Customers, requirements providers, product owners, managers, architects, and other programmers are simply too lazy to specify them right and they just drop those feature requests and bugs on our heads. We have to deal with them. The most enthusiastic of us dive into those unclear problem descriptions and attempt to clear things our on their our, attempt "to figure it out themselves." This is a very unprofessional behavior. Instead, you should always try to push back those requirements providers and make sure the requirements you work with are unambiguous, clear, and easy to understand. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z59jkRAeBDg

M36: Protect yourself against stupid managers—become their good friend! Feb 14, 2019

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You remember my recommendations for a programmer if the management is weak and stupid, right? Don't be loyal. Instead, use their resources for your own good. But what do you do if you are the architect and the tech lead of the project? In that case, the situation is more complicated, but it's solvable. You just need to be more careful, here is how. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2lZsRLwlk

M35: A transition from office slavery to pay-by-result model is very expensive Feb 13, 2019

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Very often startup founders and CTOs are asking me how and whether it's possible to transition from traditional full-time management to pay-by-result and microtasking, which we practice in Zerocracy. My answer is that it's possible but expensive. It will take time, money, and nerves. Here is a short summary of why it will be so difficult and why you should use Zerocracy instead. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAgRUtR3LQg

M31: What do you do with junior programmers who can't write good code? You train them. Feb 12, 2019

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Multitasking is something only senior developers can deal with, because it's stressful, results-focused, and demands a lot of skills, which junior developers simply don't have. However, the question is: What those junior developers should do? How they can contribute to the project? There is a number of possible ways. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OHfh36zLsk

M34: Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) are two entirely different things! Feb 12, 2019

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I know so many testers who think that they are QA engineers. They are so wrong that I decided to record a video about that. Testing is about breaking the software and finding bugs. QA is about watching the entire software development process and improving its quality indicators. They are two absolutely different activities. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp4PL0AJAVo

M33: No don't need to be loyal to your employers, use them for your own good! Feb 11, 2019

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Proper management is very rare, happens only in some companies. Others are treating people like office slaves, expecting them to do stay in the office instead of delivering results. What do you do when you happen to be hired by such a company? How do you change it? How can you improve your team and motivate your management to shift to better management practices, like microtasking, paying by result, etc? You can't! And you shouldn't even try. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op3EIwhMxrg

M32: Micromanagement happens when tasks are big and motivation is not explicit Feb 08, 2019

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Do you know what micromanagement is? It's when your manager is telling you exactly what you have to do right now in order to achieve the results he or she wants. The micromanager doesn't trust you and that's why wants and needs to control every step you make. It's annoying and unproductive, but it's inevitable unless you have small tasks and a transparent and unambiguous system of rewards and punishment. The full video is here: https://youtu.be/0Jte_LGR5Zk

M30: Pay equality and smaller pay gap mean only one thing: the management is weak Feb 06, 2019

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The average salary of american workers is growing 1% every year, while the paygap between similar jobs is decreasing. What do I think about this trend? Does it sound like people are getting more every year and it's good? Not at all. This trend is completely against what Zerocracy is fighting for: unequal pay for unequal contribution. We want to work with free people, who get what they deserve because of their work, not because of their place in the company. Meritocracy is yet another name for the movement we are leading now in the industry of software development. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZOuJ7AAas

M29: Instead of finding the right architect, find a way to manage the architect right Feb 05, 2019

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In order to do the project right, you need the right person, right? Wrong! This type of thinking doesn't help at all and only leads to failures. It's the management that needs to be "right," not its people. Watch this morning video about this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZnloEHeOk

M28: Microtasking works only if you can decompose tasks, PDD helps you do exactly that Feb 04, 2019

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Microtasking is a great management method, provided you can break your larger scope into smaller micro-tasks. Who should do this decomposition and how much time will work by itself will take? This question I hear very often when we start talking about paying-by-results and microtasking. We've spent a few years to find the answer and the methodology invented was called Puzzle Driven Development, here is how it works (the full video is there): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmSaC_OjIbQ

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