April 08, 2012
When leading a team you have to be both a leader and a manager. Leaders motivate staff to perform the work; managers put measures in place to ensure that the work is completed and that results are evaluated to better handle future projects.
January 28, 2012
What is a true professional? Is it someone that knows his/her stuff inside and out; someone that is 100% client focused; someone who is always organized; or, someone who gets everything - down to the last pixel - perfect?
December 18, 2011
All too many times people come to meetings with pen and paper, and then leave with nothing substantial written down. Unless you are one of those individuals with the incredible ability to recall everything that was said during a meeting, why would you not write down what was discussed?
November 14, 2011
Most of us have been there – being assigned the job of fixing or enhancing the functionality of someone else’s project. Someone whose code you’ve never encountered before; someone who you may not even know ... someone who did not leave any documentation!
November 12, 2011
I recently worked on a project where the layout, content and apparently the scope of the application were not finalized and kept on changing until an hour after launch. Needless to say, the project – while being launched on time – was one of the most stressful experiences I have had; not so much in terms of developing the application – that was easy – more so in terms of the change requests, bugs and constant emails that never seemed to end.