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Search Results for: Spolsky
Giving Away Your Service for Free on Weekends
Copilot is a cool application that lets you control someone else’s computer. So you can receive technical support remotely. You let someone access your computer and copilot takes care of the sometimes very complex task of linking the two computers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Joel Spolsky, marketing
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Management Improvement Carnival #6
Management Improvement ideas from around the web: Lean Q&A by Jamie Flinchbaugh – “There is no recipe, no three-ring binder approach to lean. If someone brings you an approach and says “here is the best way to implement lean,” please, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
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Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer Service
Once again Joel Spolsky spins a great post with, Seven steps to remarkable customer service. Read it. It’s crucial that tech support have access to the development team. This means that you can’t outsource tech support: they have to be … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, IT, Management, Process improvement, Systems thinking
Tagged customer service, Deming, Software Development
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The Psychology of Too Much Choice
An understanding of psychology is one of the four components of Dr. Deming’s management system. This understanding lies behind practices such as: driving out fear, respect for people and eliminating slogans. In an organization all the components (practices, processes, investments, … Continue reading
The IT Iceberg Secret
The Iceberg Secret, Revealed by Joel Spolsky It’s pretty clear that programmers think in one language, and MBAs think in another. I’ve been thinking about the problem of communication in software management for a while, because it’s pretty clear to … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Software Development
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Management Improvement Carnival #1
There have been a number of great post recently about management improvement: Amazon’s Long Public Haul by Kevin Meyer – “Amazon has now been around a while and has a loyal following. Their culture is apparently deep, at least for … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Customer focus, Innovation, Lean thinking, Management
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Sub-Optimize
From the “you call this agile?” department by Joel Spolsky: Yes, context switching is painful. Yes, you need to take into account the costs of context switching when you interrupt someone’s work. But every decision has pros and cons and … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking
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Dangers of Extrinsic Motivation
The Econ 101 Management Method by Joel Spolsky. Once again Joel presents interesting ideas very well – past posts referencing Joel. But when you offer people money to do things that they wanted to do, anyway, they suffer from something … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Psychology
Tagged Deming, extrinsic motivation, Joel Spolsky, Management, managing people, motivation, Psychology, Software Development
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Interviews with Innovators
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston is an interesting looking book to be published in a few months. The book consists of interviews with founders of technology companies exploring the initial efforts to create a … Continue reading
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Problems Caused by Performance Appraisal
People are increasingly challenging the notion that we just have to live with performance appraisal systems. As usually, I will make my suggestion that chapter 9 of the Leader’s Handbook offers great material on performing without appraisal (and the rest of the book is great too). Continue reading
