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Hybrid meetings: 5 best practices for better outcomes

CIO

Offering a work-from-home option is no longer negotiable if you want to keep your teams staffed with talented employees. They even miss in-person meetings. The key to keeping your team — and keeping them engaged — is hybrid work. This meeting model is different from all-video calls or all in-person meetings.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible.

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Best Practices for Software Project Management

Invid Group

Best Practices for Software Project Management BY: INVID Every software development project needs to have effective project management. It entails scheduling, allocating, and managing resources to accomplish project objectives within a predetermined timeframe and financial constraints.

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Software Development Team Structure

KitelyTech

The success of any software development project hinges largely on the structure of the development team behind it. A well-organized team can work efficiently, meet deadlines, and maintain a high level of quality output. It also ensures that the project runs smoothly while meeting the desired outcome.

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7 Effective Tips on Hiring Remote Software Developers

The Crazy Programmer

Getting more for less – these four words describe the main reason why companies opt for hiring remote developers. First of all, in-person meetings are off the table. You’ll have to rely on video conferencing – both for the screening process and day-to-day management later on. Poor communication – or lack of it altogether.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Leaders must be committed to the enablement of agile teams.”. Agility is about shipping as well as development. Team leadership void. Ask to see their team metrics,” he says. Losing the forest for the trees.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower CTO

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? Lack of communication between developers.