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Project Management
“If you only remember one thing. The only sensible answer when somebody hands you a project and a deadline is to say, ‘I’ll take a look at it’
If you’ve ever hand the experience of somebody saying, ‘this shouldn’t take you very long’, or ‘would you mind doing this quick thing?’ – and two years later you’re still working on it because it turned out to be bigger than the Aswan Dam, then you should consider doing this on every request that comes your way.”.
Create A Winning Team
“In a regular team, as opposed to a group, members tend to become more motivated, develop new ideas to improve team performance and take on more responsibility in putting plans into action. A self-managed team is a specific type of team that sustains a high degree of collaboration and that manages itself with the aim of growing into a very high performance team. In self-managed teams, trust grows among the team members as work progresses and they become motivated to accept more difficult challenges. The focus in these types of teams is on performance as well as on teamwork. Their success requires strong personal and company commitment, skills development and support from both fellow team members and management.”
Extreme Programming
“Building a successful software project requires far more than just coding. A beautiful, elegant, and comprehensively tested project is useless unless it meets the customer’s actual needs.”
Get SH*T Done
“You cannot achieve by only talking about what you are going to do one day. You must get shit done. And you must surround yourself with other people who get shit done.” – Aaron Levie, Box.
Lean Entrepreneur
“You simply cannot solve a problem if you do not deeply understand the problem you’re solving, and you cannot design a solution if you do not deeply understand those that will use it. Further, you cannot have this understanding for huge, undifferentiated groups of people, but by understanding the needs and desires of your sub segments, you might be able to design an experience they will pay for.”