Compliments; Instant productivity improvement for software teams, with a small effort….

Hello, you project manager/team leader. I expected this title to grasp your attention. Would you like to know how to improve the performance of your team members?  This can be done without massive statistics or an expensive performance improvement program. This magic pill is called positive feedback. Just give your team members the credits for [...]

Compliments; Instant software productivity improvement, with a small effort….

Hello, you project manager/team leader. I expected this title to grasp your attention. Would you like to know how to improve the performance of your team members?  This can be done without massive statistics or an expensive performance improvement program. This magic pill is called positive feedback. Just give your team members the credits for [...]

Yesterday: Successful Unconference Event – Today: OWB @ The W

So yesterday’s Unconference event at OOW was a great success, The Overlook was mostly full, the technology mostly cooperated, and attendees mostly chose to stick with us till the end rather than running for the keynote Mark Rittman presented his experiences with the OBI EE integration in OWB 11.2 and the rest of the product, [...]

After the Storm – Oracle Open World and a New Podcast

I’ve had a week back at the office following Oracle Open World in San Francisco and had some time to reflect on all that went on. If you have been following various blogs and write ups about the event you’ll have heard about the various dinners bloggers or Ace’s attended, which, while they may seem [...]

Pitfalls in Moving from Services to Software

Got a lot of positive feedback on my post from yesterday about some lessons learned while growing OctetString, so will write a few more articles along these lines… Given that consulting billing rates and hours go down in tough times, many consultants will undoubtedly decide to build businesses to “product-ize” some of their solutions. This [...]

Pitfalls in Moving from Services to Software

Got a lot of positive feedback on my post from yesterday about some lessons learned while growing OctetString, so will write a few more articles along these lines… Given that consulting billing rates and hours go down in tough times, many consultants will undoubtedly decide to build businesses to “product-ize” some of their solutions. This [...]

Pitfalls in Moving from Services to Software

Got a lot of positive feedback on my post from yesterday about some lessons learned while growing OctetString, so will write a few more articles along these lines… Given that consulting billing rates and hours go down in tough times, many consultants will undoubtedly decide to build businesses to “product-ize” some of their solutions. This [...]