After investing a lot of time doing a project (a personal project, or your own company for example) you expect some measure of success. I discussed previously what to do when your job is Not working out… When it’s time to give up? But what if it’s a project? If you are doing a project […]

After investing a lot of time in a job inside a company (or maybe in a project) you expect success and results. What happens, when that doesn’t come? Do you give up?Or try a bit harder?Maybe one last push will do it? This is a hard dilemma, one that on twitter Yara Senger was pondering […]

In our last article we discussed the biggest problem: lack of responsibility… And most comments I got from friends is that this is not a problem from technology only. It is everywhere… So true… This week Brazil is immersed in some off the charts leadership crisis. It is hard not to refer to it when […]

“Do you know what is the biggest problem of our software development industry?” It was a rhetorical question. I was lunching with one of the top minds of the IT industry in Brazil. Developer, University Professor, multi-Entrepreneur, Investor, Author… Silvio Meira has done it all, and is happy to share his knowledge. Silvio has a […]

Software development is hard… More specifically, “programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics” (Edsger Dijkstra). And yet, we code. We code for work. We code for the challenge. Many decide to code for money (sometimes in old technologies…). Some people code to be cool! We even, literally, code for fun! No […]