What determines “progress” in terms of employment? Progress is defined by focusing on a higher goal without having to constantly worry about day-to-day needs (food, water, shelter, clothing). Those are the basic survival needs. Until you are sure that those are taken care of, your mind constantly switches back to the urgent needs at hand…

No matter what role you have in an organization – a manager, a vendor, a consultant, or an advisor – each comes with its own challenges particularly in managing workplace communication issues. These communication issues often involve conflicts in employee relations. It’s usually the nitpicking or annoyance from the older hire that shows. Or, complaints…

What is the purpose of internal training programs?  Plenty of internal training programs for employees are designed for bringing revenue to the business.  One of my biggest fears is that our team would become complacent. Chilling in their comfort zone. The sole reason I started DevriX was the opportunity to tackle complex enterprise-grade projects from…

Management and ownership are different. But are these truly incompatible?  Successful business owners and entrepreneurs have simply struggled for a continuous period of time, juggling with anything and everything from legal and accounting through sales and marketing, IT, operations, recruitment, branding, management, negotiations, to name A FEW. This isn’t necessarily a great thing if the…

Every boss dreams of the perfect team, but since there isn’t such a thing, settle for the next best — a team you’ve created and carefully trained. Hiring the best people does not necessarily equate to creating the best team. Like cogs in a well-oiled machine, you don’t need to find the perfect employees, just…

As a project manager, you need to assess the culture, your role, your team, how problems escalate, what your responsibilities are and how to tackle edge cases (delays, problematic team members, running out of budget, handling scope creep, disagreeing with a client, etc.) And within the right environment, everyone follows the company mission statement and…

Around $359 billion in paid hours or 385 million working days are lost every year due to workplace conflict. This is according to the “Workplace Conflict and How Business Can Harness it to Thrive” report. To avoid conflict and maintain positive employee relations, there are certain aspects that must be present in your workplace. These…

There are good managers. And then, there are great ones. Great managers commonly grow within a business. Many of them started from low-paid, intense jobs as regular employees. They evolved because they were excellent in their tasks, delivered good results, and went through many promotions until they were offered a senior management role. This growth…

Hiring new employees is among the biggest problems businesses face. From micro businesses to large enterprises, finding and closing top talent is a major challenge that we’re all eager to overcome. Hiring Employees With Qualified Talent Having led over a thousand interviews, I’ve faced challenges with almost every role I looked for in IT. Software…

I’ve jumped between the role of a senior developer and a manager multiple times – including leading and managing a software development team role. My first stunt in management was over a decade ago. We were building a Java-based distributed software for a telecom group operating in multiple countries. I spent a year and a half…