Some might say that budgets are a necessary evil of running any business. Others might say that while budgets are usually mentioned as an inhibitor of growth by limiting investments, they are a great tool to focus resources and to make sure money is spent responsibly. I’m guessing both those parties are correct. Is there a way to have your cake and eat it when it comes to finance?
Read MorePeople are different in many ways. Different background, opinions, experience, sensitivity and social skills – all these different things affect the way people are and behave. Cooperation and collaboration is very important in most situations, but you should not need to suffer problems to discover that you need help from others. Say hello to the new management style. Here are a few tips on how to build up your team in an effective way.
Read MoreDid you just wake up from your Agile dream realizing that your Scrum is not as Agile as you thought it would be and you are not seeing the obvious benefit as clearly as before? Are technical debts piling up and is the increment release process painful? Then you might need to look yourself in the mirror and have a honest retrospective about Scrum with inspecting your symptoms – only then you are able to understand what might be causing your problems.
Read MoreGetting things done is important, getting the right things done is even more important. Being efficient means that you are productive and you produce the right things of the right quality. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of tools that have worked well for us to share with you. We wrote this because your success is important to us.
Read MoreWhen I first started CoreMotif I had a lot of stuff going on. I left the bank I was an Enterprise Architect at because I wanted to try my own hand at startups and consulting. I was the CTO of a startup at the same time, I was helping other startups get off the ground, I was kicking ass and taking names.In addition to my CTO role, I was also doing sales, writing contracts, hiring and training developers and doing all the stuff you should do when starting a business. I was also building a consultancy and learning those ropes. I also partnered with other startups to help them off the ground, build solutions and create development processes. My focus was all over the place, I learned a lot, and when I look back at that time in my life, I wasted a lot of hours. How can that be?
Read MoreFor most IT people, the term IT strategy is connected to vague visionary statements, cultural buzzwords and huge documents. These documents can be expensive to produce, difficult to maintain and a nightmare to communicate. Visions are hard to implement without specific guidance and cultural buzzword are fireworks that quickly fizzle out when people walk out of your presentation. If you aren’t one of those huge businesses chances are that you don’t have one of those gigantic documents to follow. Even if you are, there are still ways to make your IT strategy better.
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