October 2011
5 posts
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Software Engineer Career Advice →
Career advice for software engineers by a software engineer-turned-entrepreneur
Be in a profit center to increase revenues and/or to reduce costs
Co-workers and bosses are not usually your friends
Networking
Modesty is not a career-enhancing character trait
Work to live, don’t live to work.
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Team Leading Lessons Learned
Serve first, then lead by example and last is command
Be generous with praise and stingy/specific with criticism
I do not know everything
Everyone has something to offer
Communicate, communicate, communicate
Be firm on basic principles, e.g. punctuality, team-first, being fair
Training is an investment, not an expense :-)
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Motivating Developers →
if money is not an issue :-)
Being Set Up to Succeed
Having Excellent Management
Learning New Things
Exercising Creativity and Solving the Right Kind of Problems
Having a Voice
Being Recognized for Hard Work
Building Something that Matters
Building Software without an Act of Congress
Having Few Legacy Constraints
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Further Lessons Learned From IT Outsourcing Team
This is second part of insights from one of three founding members of a Kuala Lumpur-based offshore development team for a web-based pension system(2009-2011). You can view part 1 of enterprise application development offshore outsourcing lessons here.
Office Internet.
You absolutely cannot assume quality of Internet access in a Kuala Lumpur office.
To shortlist a potential Internet...
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10 Things You NEED to Do if You Were Hired Today →
Rule #4: Make your boss look good :-)