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Category Archives: Software Development
IT Operations as a Competitive Advantage
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!) The example above is the tale of two Web 2.0 startups scaling to 20 systems during their first three months. The first team starts writing software and installing systems as they … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Software Development
Tagged IT, programming, Ruby, Software Development
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The Google Way: Give Engineers Room
The Google Way: Give Engineers Room Google engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that if you have a great idea, you always have time to … Continue reading
Posted in Google, IT, Management, Software Development
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Kaizen – Yahoo Mail Style
Yahoo Mail Innovates, Gmail Stagnates Yahoo Mail has begun rolling out of beta after releasing an onslaught of innovative feature improvements along the way. On the other hand, a whopping three years into their beta release, Gmail remains one of … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Innovation, IT, Management, Software Development
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Six Sigma in Software Development
Six Sigma makes inroads in software development organizations “A lot of big companies are developing their own software engineering variance of Six Sigma training,” said Siviy, “putting software-specific examples into the normal Six Sigma curriculum.” However, she said, it’s early … Continue reading
Posted in Design of Experiments, IT, Management, Six sigma, Software Development
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Great Marissa Mayer Webcast on Google Innovation
Marissa Mayer speech at Stanford on innovation at Google (23 minutes, 26 minutes question and answers). She leads the product management efforts on Google’s search products- web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Innovation, Management, Popular, quote, Software Development, webcast
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Hiring: Silicon Valley Style
Interviews on how to hire in Silicon Valley. I especially like Guy Kawasaki’s comment – “the key to getting great people to work for you is to have a great product. That is why Google does so well. That is … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Google, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Career, hiring, IT
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Funding Google Gadget Development
Google Gadgets are small tools and toys that integrate with iGoogle. Google is funding developers to work on creating gadgets through Google Gadget Ventures. Great idea. They offer: 1. Grants of $5,000 to those who’ve built gadgets we’d like to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Fun, Google, Innovation, IT, Management, Software Development
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Moving Jobs to Silicon Valley from India
India grows up [the broken link was removed]: The costs of having two offices, which are twelve time zones apart, is significant. People in both offices frequently had conference calls at 10pm and midnight every night (as a result the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, India, IT, Software Development
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Predicting Improves Learning
The Power of Prediction by Jared Spool: By asking these questions up front, we give the team members something to focus on. When a participant gets stuck somewhere they predicted, it stands out. They can take pleasure in knowing they … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, Software Development
Tagged learning, Psychology
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Google Software Engineering
An interesting series of posts on Google NYC, Top Google engineer talks to NYC software industry [the broken link was removed]: Google NYC is not a specialized engineering operation, its 300 engineers work in teams of three on the full … Continue reading
