June, 2010 Harvard Business Review by Robert I. Sutton What makes a boss great? It’s a question I’ve been researching for a while now. In June 2009, I offered some analysis in HBR on the subject, and more recently I’ve been hard at work on a book called Good Boss, Bad Boss (forthcoming in September from Business Plus). In both cases, my approach has been to be as evidence-based …

From Getting Real – 37 Signals Running software is the best way to build momentum, rally your team, and flush out ideas that don’t work. It should be your number one priority from day one. It’s ok to do less, skip details, and take shortcuts in your process if it’ll lead to running software faster. Once you’re there, you’ll be rewarded with a significantly more accurate perspective on how …

I belong to a group of small business owners. We meet every month and talk business (global and our own), support one another and share good and bad news. A great group. Our last meeting, a week or so ago, was the first time in many months when each of our companies could look up and see the world getting better on the economy front. The retail guys were …

WDDinc was founded in 1993 by three partners, Alan Wlasuk, Reed Delporte and John Davis to provide software development expertise to a variety of clients. Our focus has always been custom development of high-quality software for clients with unique needs, ranging from data center infrastructures to multi-national call centers. Our clients span the United States and our software can be found throughout the world. Our software development teams provide …

One of the most baffling issues in the world of software development is the seemingly magical way a software development project tends to grow beyond its time and cost bounds. The following White Paper outlines a development technique that we have used with success to bound software development projects and deliver viable products at a projected time and expense budget. The technique we will discuss is known as the …