Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| Internet Driven Improvement of Human Nature |
| May 16, 2011 | |
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The Internet makes us better. I am serious. You say it makes us stupid? Yes, maybe we tend to be more stupid, our brains get slower and lazier, but anyway at that we become better. The Internet just bites off part of our personality, and we happen to lose not the best part of ourselves. Tags: human nature | Internet | open business model | taraadin business
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| Business Model Change Required |
| May 11, 2011 | |
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Basically business is about exchanging something for something: grain for meet, food for clothes, trinkets for gold or for Manhattan, gold for banknotes, services for money, etc. Simplest possible way of organizing business is implemented in robbery: You save your life for giving to your business partner all valuable things you have with you at the moment you are arranged in this deal. It’s really simple: no printed agreement, no multipage requirements, no long lasting relationships – just a knife or a gun being exposed, and that’s it, deal is done. However, very few of us agree to be involved in such a business, so for centuries people have been designing and implementing more and more detailed and sophisticated means of regulating business relationships. All these rules and requirements about how business should be done, which documents should be singed between parties, what kind of reports should be provided to the state authorities, etc., are intended to make business relationships as safe as possible – safe from fraud, from inadequate behavior, from unjustified risks, etc. Tags: business model | rules and regulations Hits: 254 | Read more... |
| The power of “The” |
| April 28, 2011 | |
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I have never come across any information about how usage of definite article can affect market. At that, such an influence can sometimes become very, very efficient. Tags: image | marketing | the | value Hits: 284 | Read more... |
| (2be OR 2outsource) OR NOT (2be OR 2outsource). That is the question |
| January 31, 2011 | |
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Fortunately, most often the dilemma does not look like “To outsource or not to be”. However, it easily might sound like “To outsource or not to grow”, and that is a real issue. Why are we so afraid to outsource software development? Okay, maybe not afraid, let’s say we are cautious and uneasy about outsourcing. Anyway, it does not really matter how we name our feelings that result in avoiding outsourcing. The avoidance matters. Is this avoidance justified or not? Is it right or wrong? Do we lose or win? Tags: software development outsourcing
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| Facing Crisis. Facing About in Business Behavior |
| March 17, 2010 | |
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What’s good in crisis, it helps us to get rid of unnecessary things, habits and rules. Let’s take an example of common life. For instance, I am used to visit a Starbucks once a day to sit there sipping a coffee and thinking about how to set the world to rights. Now imagine I’ve got a problem that requires all my attention. What about my everyday visits to Starbucks? Tags: business challenges | changes | crisis Hits: 1109 | Read more... |
| Facing Crisis 2. Rules of Promotion |
| February 17, 2010 | |
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In the context of this narrative it makes sense to divide lifecycle of any company into two types: normal periods of time and crisis time periods, these time spaces changing one another more and more frequently during recent decades. Tags: crisis | promotion | software development business Hits: 1073 | Read more... |
| Facing Crisis |
| February 12, 2010 | |
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One of the most popular subjects in the Web is still the world financial crisis. Quite understandable why: directly or indirectly it affects lives of billions of people. And, no doubt, we are among those billions. Saying “we” I now mean those involved in business, more precisely – into software development business and software development outsourcing. Tags: changes | crisis | software development outsourcing | software development Hits: 1033 | Read more... |
| Presumption of intellect |
| August 24, 2009 | |
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I’d like to talk about yet another obvious public trend, opposite to the main vogue in choosing SLCM for a software development project. Tags: agile | intellect vs stupidity | software lifecycle | trends Hits: 1809 | Read more... |
| Rules for Agile wanted |
| August 2, 2009 | |
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Agile, Lean, Kanban and kindred software practices present different variations on the same theme: How to do software development more effective, i.e. how to provide customers’ happiness with more confidence. Tags: agile | lean | software lifecycle Hits: 1466 | Read more... |
| Sudden stupid decisions with grave consequences |
| July 23, 2009 | |
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Recently I happened to see a new Ice Age movie: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Well done, with nice and cute characters, but stuffed with absolutely stupid jokes. What a disappointment! Tags: software development business Hits: 2020 | Read more... |
| Software development business: Peculiarities in delivering results |
| July 9, 2009 | |
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How software development differs from other types of business? At a first glance there should be no difference whether you sell custom developed software product or some made-to-order material product. Be you a tailor or a software developer, a customer just comes to pay you for a product he/she needs, be it a shirt or an application. Tags: custom software | delivering result | requirements Hits: 1155 | Read more... |
| Software life cycle: More freedom than in human life |
| July 5, 2009 | |
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Software development as one of the human activities is part of our life. Hence, it cannot be completely independent from society, from politics, from prevailing lifestyle. That said, it looks strange to me how common software development techniques show obvious tendencies absolutely opposite to the main trends of the society. Tags: software lifecycle | trends Hits: 1209 | Read more... |
| Software development business essentials |
| June 21, 2009 | |
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I am in IT business for more than 20 years already, and since 1991 I am a CTO and one of the two co-owners of the Inreco LAN software development (SD) company. It's quite a time. One day this notion has transformed into a sudden idea: why not share my experience and my thoughts about how this business lives; what are the benefits; what are the difficulties; when and how issues tend to become problems, and so on, so on. It is interesting to discuss these ideas with people who would find my notes worth reading. Tags: business challenges | custom software | software development business Hits: 1442 | Read more... |
