The Interview

Technical interviews fail because technical interviewers insist on turning them into challenges. The appointment is for 10:30. Tom, the VP of Something Very Important, Dick, the CIO, and Harry, Software Engineer III sit at the other side of the table when you arrive. They arranged a single chair opposite their side of the conference table. […]

Leadership

Everyone prattles on about software leadership. Everyone wants to find the leaders. Seminars promise to build leaders. This drivel mainly appeals to the MBA and the white-shirt crowd because it speaks to their outdated, counterproductive, absolutely attractive nonsense to “the management way” of doing things they learned by running production floors when managers prowled the […]

… Until Morale Improves

I served with a fellow, Lawrence Mack, who was on board the USS Pueblo when it was captured by the North Koreans in 1968. One of Larry’s stories he told resonates even today, and it’s about the importance of human contact. He said that after capture they were held in a POW camp in North […]

The Office Doesn’t Have a Culture

Culture (/ˈkʌltʃər/) is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.[1] Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning […]

The Hour Mill

I’ve been working in Navision… Attain… NAV… Business Central (whatever they called themselves) since 1998. It’s been a ride. From the Beginning When I first joined the community as a green (but certified) CA/L developer, I was told by the Solution Center owner how the partners ran their successful businesses. (This was long before Microsoft […]