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How to Respond to Rude People It’s bad enough contending with rudeness outside of work. But when you have to deal with it at work—whether from customers, managers, coworkers, or anyone else—it’s especially annoying. Naomi Karten offers some helpful tips to respond to rude people. |
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Is Software Testing a Thankless Job? QA teams often get blamed for things that are out of their control. These three issues are the biggest pain points: missed bugs, missed deadlines, and poor quality |
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Moving Beyond a Superficial Understanding of Agile While agile is almost universally hailed, the majority of executives only have a "superficial" understanding of the methodology. Steve Vaughn explains that this level of understanding by upper management is a serious impediment to the necessary culture change that needs to take place. |
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Why Do We Make Bad Decisions? In the workplace, not a day goes by that you don’t have to make a decision, or more likely several. How many of them subsequently proved to be bad decisions? Naomi Karten writes why it's worth considering how these decisions can affect your professional and personal life. |
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How Executives and Developers Can Communicate Better Top-level executives often have a hard time communicating what they want from their development team. But there’s a way the two groups can work as one. |
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We Have Created Our Own Shortage of People If you are a hiring manager looking for people, don’t create your own shortage of candidates by insisting on too-tight job descriptions. Technical skills are helpful but not critical. Try training a candidate into a good fit for your position. |
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Questions to Ask during a Job Interview When you go on a job interview, the person offering the job is called the interviewer. But if you want to get the job, you too need to ask questions. Naomi Karten lists some helpful questions that you can ask to show that you're prepared and are a strong thinker. |