by José María Corsino | Apr 30, 2024 | Quality and improvement
Delivering is everything, until then what we do is in our personal domain, where it can have whatever form and substance we want. When we deliver our work it becomes visible, and we should not spoil a good job with a bad presentation. It is of little use to have...
by Ildefonso García-Correa | Apr 18, 2024 | Quality and improvement
Stoicism is based on four principles: wisdom, courage, temperance and justice. Although the ideas of Diogenes, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius or Seneca are more than 2000 years old, their teachings not only do not go out of fashion but have nowadays gained an unexpected...
by Ildefonso García-Correa | Mar 27, 2024 | Quality and improvement
In any walk of life, (good) communication is vital. If we take construction as an example, we can speak of the chain: architect-construction manager-worker. Similarly, the communication skills of a technology project team play a huge role in the success or failure of...
by José María Corsino | Mar 12, 2024 | Quality and improvement
Human nature tends toward minimum effort and, therefore, to shift work and responsibilities to others. As a probable consequence, critical thinking towards oneself is also limited, since submitting oneself to judgment implies an additional effort. We speak of...
by José María Corsino | Jan 31, 2024 | Quality and improvement
First of all, a brief explanation of what iterative development is: to build software by dividing the work into phases or iterations, performing in each of them what would be the complete software development cycle, that is, analyze, design, implement, test and...
by José María Corsino | Jan 24, 2024 | Quality and improvement
The textbook risk management says that risks must be avoided and mitigated so that they do not turn into problems. But, like code merge, one cannot avoid assuming and facing risks that are not under one’s control. We must accept that we do not always have the...
