As we're growing our development team in InvoiceFair I've gone through a process of budget approval for hiring people. The process is pretty lightweight, but in an effort to be as thorough as possible, I put together an org chart, some lightweight role descriptions and so on. To be honest it was all going well,... Continue Reading →
What did Kevin Do? Did you happen to read "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver? The entire book progresses hinting at some great tragedy, but without actually revealing the full extent until close to the end (at least that's how I remember it). The book, written in the form of letters from... Continue Reading →
How do we deal with the 'We've always done it this way' approach?
When is a blocker not a blocker?
If managed not to slumber through Part 1 on estimation, then you find yourself waiting with bated breath for the dramatic climax of our tale of estimation and fixed bid projects. For the sake of this discussion, a fixed bid project is a project that has a fixed price based on a defined timeline. Of... Continue Reading →
Bows and Arrows 