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LinkedIn's Ten Years of Phenomenal Growth LinkedIn reached the ten-year milestone this week, and it can boast a massive profit over the years as a sign that it's truly made it—even though some still deny its importance in the world. We take a look at how far the site has come and offer some help from those who've mastered its purpose. |
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Is Working from Home a Boon or a Bane for IT Professionals? Yahoo made shockwaves earlier this year when the company announced it was doing away with work-from-home benefits for all employees. CEO Marissa Mayer claimed that there is a lack of innovation when employees are separated. But what if the opposite occurs due to the impact of a negative culture? |
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What Happens When Projects Are Completed Ahead of Schedule? Are projects ever completed ahead of schedule? It turns out the answer is yes, and interestingly, just as with projects that fall behind, issues can arise with projects completed ahead of schedule. Naomi Karten writes about some of these problems and what to do if you finish a project early. |
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How to Leverage Social Networks for Referrals Steve Vaughn explains how to leverage social networks for referrals. The development community is typically small and well connected, so your developers can be the best resource for finding and recruiting the highest quality programmers. |
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Do Software Testers Have Special Ethical Obligations? Some might argue that the same basic ethical rules apply in both professional and nonprofessional contexts—ethics is ethics. Other ethicists believe that all professionals, regardless of their practice, have special moral obligations. So, do software testers have special moral obligations? |
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Dealing with Jerks at Work When someone bugs you, it’s tempting to characterize that person as a jerk. But is the person truly a jerk, or is it just some aspect of the person’s behavior that’s annoying? What, actually, makes someone a jerk? Naomi Karten defines a jerk's characteristics and tells you how to deal with them. |
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Avoid Non-Agile Thinking: Hacks, Egotism, and Stagnancy Nirav Assar shares some of the ways to avoid non-agile decorum, by pointing out some of the biggest crimes against agile that he spotted while reading Andy Hunt's Practices of an Agile Developer. How many of these examples have you seen on agile teams that you've worked with? |
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Why Testers Need to Tune Out the Noise and Focus on Value How do brand new testers—and experienced testers—make sense of their role in light of the myriad opinions about what testers are supposed to do? One simple way is this: Tune out the noise. Testers should use their own minds to focus on how people might obtain value from the program they’re testing. |
