Безобразия происходящие в США мы обсуждаем тут: @szdne

M156: Many management experts believe that competition kills collaboration and that's why a software team must not encourage their people to compete. Instead, they should collaborate and help each other. I don't see a contradiction here. Moreover, I don't think that a fully altruistic collaboration is at all possible and/or productive. I argue with Allen Holub in this video. Watch it.

We start a live webinar in an hour, about elegant integration of OOP, ANTLR and Xembly. Don't miss it: https://youtu.be/I9xyZVSo-HY I will demonstrate how EOLANG was designed using these tools.

M157: Measuring the productivity of programmers to many of us seems like a dangerous process, which leads to a lack of value delivered. This is true, but only if you use the wrong metrics to do your measurements. Use the right ones and everything will be fine. Watch it.

You must see this one. Undercover (2019) is a very realistic, well made, and thoughts/tears provoking Holland series. Besides, it’s surprisingly far away from the recent Netflix political agenda: not a single black police officer, for example. Watch it.

M158: How to resolve conflicts constructively, without hurting anyone's feelings — is a skill to be developed. How do we develop this skill? Only by resolving conflicts every day. Not walking away from them, but resolving them. Watch it.

Новый выпуск черно-белых новостей: https://youtu.be/nenmlYhNM50 Обсудить можно здесь: @szdne

M159: Competition in a team works only if are ready to lose some part of your team, and very soon. If you don't want that to happen and your main objective is to keep the team intact and alive — competition will only do you a bad favor. Watch it.

A new Sunday Twitter poll for you. It will illustrate the latest blog post of mine.

M160: Traditionally, you tell your team what needs to be done and then force them (or motivate) to do it. You basically try to make your plans their plans. It works sometimes in some industries, but doesn't work with us programmers: we are too spoiled and lazy. I suggest a better planning principle: you let your people decide how many awards they are going to earn and then build your plans on top of their selfish desires. Watch it.

New post on my blog: https://www.yegor256.com/2021/02/02/greed-based-planning.html

New episode of Shift-M podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2vUKqEgdys

M161: Many of us believe that competition is not something a software team may need. Moreover, competition may destroy a team killing morale and promoting conflicts. This may happen, but not because the competition is a bad idea, but due to the misconfiguration of its rules. Watch it.

We've finished the review of all 23 papers submitted to ICCQ and selected only six of them for publication. The selected papers do seem to be interesting, check their abstracts. This event is really unique for Russia, for a number of reasons. First, it's done in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society. Second, its Program Committee is independent and international: MIT, Microsoft, Univ of California, Univ of Postdam, etc. Third, it's sponsored by Huawei, Kaspersky, Yandex and SberCloud (key players in Russian tech market) and by HSE Univ, MIPT, MSU, and ISP RAS (key academic orgs in Moscow). The event will happen in online mode in Zoom and will be streamed in YouTube. I encourage you to register anyway, here.

New post on my blog: https://www.yegor256.com/2021/02/10/dataization.html

M162: Most of us are so scared now of the word "punishment" that all types of mistakes made by programmers remain unnoticed, very often. I believe, there are many types of mistakes that have to be punished. Everybody will win: the project, the people, and our customers. Watch it.

I'm thinking about creating a private club of people who want me to be their mentor. I regularly receive emails of such kind: they ask me to give them some advice, mostly related to their career choices. Here is the prototype: https://github.com/yegor256/techiends

The idea is simple: I pick the most promising candidates and invest my time into them. Later, they do the same with new members of the club. Eventually we'll have a pretty strong group of people who think alike and ready to help each other.

If you are interested in joining (pay attention, it's not free), text me: @yegor256.

M163: It's your job as a manager in a software team—to identify wrong behavior and find ways to punish it. The best manager, of course, will configure the management system so that it will enforce the punishment. Average managers use guilt and emotions as tools for that. Bad managers are scared to even think about punishment. Watch it.

I'm in Clubhouse iPhone app: yegor256 (no surprise)