February 2021

Managing the unknown
The old school of management taught to respect someone else's time. But this has lost its relevance. I watch how traditional approaches die where you need to manage ideas and at the same time build systems. And it becomes sad - I have always liked system managers who can plan, delegate and track performance ...
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Difficult decision
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"If our customers can pay for orders with Bitcoin, we will gain a competitive advantage! And you are resisting change!" - against such an argument, all the facts sharply faded. Because hearing it in an advanced e-commerce company, where continuous change was part of the ideology, is tantamount to an insult ...
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See the big picture
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Client: I diligently follow the recommendations every day, spend a lot of time, and the result is absolutely negligible. Consultant: You just don't know what it would be like if you didn't do anything. The survivor's mistake is not sacred knowledge, but in real life we ​​...
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Make the right choice
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Checklist: how to find a partner / contractor and ... a client? Checklist how to find a partner, choose a contractor, tender for a service provider, requirements for an IT system, a scorecard for a candidate ... Before entering into any partnership, each organization tries to understand the criteria for success ...
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All I need is trust. Memoirs about the launch of one system.
The decision to launch a raw product was traditionally received with skepticism by mainstream users. Start At the end of 2019, after 5 months from the start of work, we launched an internal system with defects in processes, “non-intuitive” interfaces, and migration errors. All these 5 ...
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