When I find myself in a new country, I am subject to landscape lust - to “cover” as much territory as possible, to travel many kilometers, to look into the most interesting corners. But at that time, even the lonely mountain peak, observed daily from the hotel window, was not conquered. I saw Spain from the bottom up - I remember it with the tops of palm trees, perfect ...
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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. But consistency does not go well with adventurism. Because the support under ...
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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. Denis managed development departments for many years, but he came to the company ...
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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. Survivor error is not sacred knowledge, but in real life we tend to forget about it. We evaluate success over and over again, ...
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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 IT systems, a scorecard for a candidate ... Before entering into any partnership, each organization tries to understand the criteria for success and make the right choice. And this is logical and correct. Surprising ...
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The decision to launch a raw product was traditionally received with skepticism by mainstream users. Start At the end of 2019, 5 months after the start of work, we launched an internal system with defects in processes, “non-intuitive” interfaces, and with migration errors. All these 5 months, an exclusively backend has been designed, which can evolve. The risk was in ...
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“We need to better select managers. Let's develop score sheets ”- the second hour of the meeting, which already lasted twice as long as the announced time, was coming to an end. The story of one meeting Initially, there was a question about a dissatisfied client ... Further, the discussion migrated through delays in hiring to a lack of competencies. Someone's careless remark led ...
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Check if there are threats to your Digital Transformation: 1 / You are looking for a universal boxed solution You will constantly depend on a provider to support your product, functionality that is unique for your company or the introduction of new ideas, or a sharp turn and transformation of services that will give a competitive advantage, will be delayed. Least -...
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People who don't care. I remember one old episode from my life, which then strongly hooked, and similar continues to cling to this day. The task was to implement an IT product. The decision was made long ago by the management and the product itself was at the final stage. I needed to define further functionality with main users. In such cases...
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It seems to me that 2020 brought us closer to the truth. What looked indestructible lost its brilliance, and at the same time - and meaning, one had only to turn the angle of light a couple of degrees. And this is a good time to ask yourself questions about true values and very boldly and honestly answer them: Do we know how ...
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I have not yet met a technical problem that could not be solved. There are so many tools in the arsenal of engineers that their combinations give astronomical possibilities - a little creativity, curiosity and the right question to the community - and already reality takes on a different shape. But I often watched how the implementation of a very small task rested on the human factor ...
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Find a partner / contractor “Where to run? Who can understand me at all? " I often hear this from business owners. “I want to find a partner / contractor for many years, but no one knows anything about what I am doing” These people spend years looking, and over time, in despair, they are affirmed in their ...
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