Articles tagged “workplace”

• Faut-il embaucher un développeur inexpérimenté ? Lorsqu’on est at­ten­tif à ce qui se dit dans les com­mu­nautés comme les sites de Stack Ex­change, ou en­core par les lead­ers, tels que Joel Spolky, en matière de l’or­gan­i­sa­tion du tra­vail au sein des…
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• Eyestrain A few months ago, I left the com­pa­ny, but it's only to­day that I un­der­stood why I of­ten had headaches and eye­strain at work, and I rarely have that when work­ing at home. At home, I un­con­scious­ly fol­low the next pat­tern: work for ten min­utes to an…
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• Trial-screens setup: the definitive guide You got your sec­ond mon­i­tor. You've seen how much it en­hances (or de­grades) your pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Now, you are dream­ing of hav­ing three mon­i­tors. Or maybe you don't have dual-screens set­up and you're jump­ing straight to three mon­i­tors set­up. Or maybe…
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• Visual management I dis­cov­ered [Vi­su­al man­age­ment blog][1] in 2013. Al­though I al­ready heard about Kent Beck's Big Vis­i­ble Chart, I've nev­er ac­tu­al­ly seen vi­su­al man­age­ment in prac­tice be­fore. For me, tick­ets went straight to Fog­Bugz or TFS and re­mained there,…
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• Measurements as a precursor of culture of quality When au­dit­ing dif­fer­ent IT com­pa­nies, the no­tice­able pat­tern is that com­pa­nies which per­form bad­ly have prob­lems in every imag­in­able area. I've nev­er seen a com­pa­ny which has out­stand­ing work qual­i­ty…
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• Don't ask writing quality code Four years ago, I com­plained about peo­ple who are ask­ing to write good code in a con­text where the com­pa­ny cul­ture it­self leads to bad code in the first place. I ex­plained the ne­ces­si­ty of RCA, and the use­less­ness of in­di­vid­ual sug­ges­tions to write…
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• Why do you need a productivity consultant Many of the per­sons who learn about my pre­vi­ous ac­tiv­i­ty as a pro­duc­tiv­i­ty con­sul­tant are won­der­ing what sort of prob­lems I was solv­ing, and why would a giv­en com­pa­ny be need­ing a con­sul­tant in­stead of solv­ing those prob­lems on their own. This…
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