How to Minimize Obsessive ThoughtsOnce you start obsessing over something, it can block out all other thoughts. Such obsessions are often about understandable worries, like whether you’ll meet the upcoming deadline or how you’ll cope with your new and fearsome boss. Follow this advice to quiet the thoughts you can't help thinking.
Is Your Team Healthy? These Are the Questions to AskA healthy team is characterized by trust, respect, openness, honesty, empathy, and flexibility. When your team is not healthy, you're met with closed minds, domination, selfishness, negativity, personal criticism, and stubbornness. How can you ensure a healthy team? Ask yourselves these questions.
Calculating the Real Cost of Multitasking on Your ProjectsThe cost of delay due to multitasking is real. It’s invisible to most people, especially management. It’s not just the cost of time lost due to context switching; it’s the fact that projects don't get out on time, which hurts your maximum sales revenue. How do you calculate these costs of delay?
What Commit Messages Say about Developers and Test AutomatorsCommit messages say a lot about the developers and test automation professionals who writes them—or who doesn’t write them at all. Trivial on the surface, the presence and substance of a commit message can indicate how forward-thinking a person is, which may indicate bigger things about the code.
What the Olympics Can Teach Us about Managing Software ProjectsObservers at the Winter Olympics in Sochi say that for the most part the opening ceremony was glorious—except for one glitch that left the organizers embarrassed. This incident gives us an opportunity to learn some lessons about managing software projects.
Enchant Your Employees and Attract New TalentWorking remotely, time off, and nice medical and dental benefits are common ways that companies attempt to lure new talent and retain their rock stars. But some tech companies are taking it a step further. Here are some great perks that companies are using to attract and retain their employees.
Facebook to Buy Messaging Startup Service WhatsApp for $19 BillionIn an apparent move to reign over messaging on phones and online, Facebook is purchasing WhatsApp for $19 billion. The sum may seem astronomical, but analysts think the deal is a smart strategy on the social network's part to maintain its place as a mobile leader. So, what's up with WhatsApp?
What's Going On with Data Security?It seems like every day we are hearing about more security breaches. Whether it is Target's losing credit card information of more than 110 million Americans or Yahoo’s data breach, in which the company lost user passwords and usernames, one has to wonder what is going on with data security.
