Tag Archives for Team Development
Making A Name For Yourself
As I have been getting settled into my job, and enjoying our new team I am very excited to see the changes and improvements we are making to our products and the experience our users have as they engage them. … Continue reading
Design Rules to Live By #7
This weeks design rule to live by has has to do with maintaining a balanced workload. It can be very easy) especially when we are starting out in the design/dev field
Design Rules to Live By #6
This weeks “Design Rule to Live By”, has to do with taking criticism, constructive or not, and using it in a way to improve and expand our skill set.
Design Rules to Live By #5
This weeks design rule to live by, can be one of the most crucial lessons learned in design relationships. Interacting with clients, and fellow team members while working in house, can provide many opportunities for disagreement/ differences of opinion on … Continue reading
Design Rules to Live By #3
This weeks design rule has to do with client/dev team relationships, and dealing with questions and revision requests…
Design Rules to Live By #2
Design Rule #2 has to do with communication… not just the fact that we need to, but that we need to proactively. Communication is our biggest ally in completing successful projects…
5 Disciplines of Successful Design
I recently read a good article about “raising up your design I the way it should go”. It drew parallels between raising children and producing good mature products/designs. One of the things in the article that struck me was the concept of discipline. The article really didn’t go in depth into discipline but provided some good talking points about discipline and design. The more I unpacked these concepts, the more I saw their value in my everyday approach to design and or development. I have broken them down into five bite sized pieces… yum! Continue reading
Friday Vidcast 4-03-09
So in this weeks Vidcast I talk about my new project www.onecss.com I am really excited about this as it is a great opportunity to build a community. Keep checking back for updates. I also talk about one of the recent posts… [read more] Continue reading
Building a Successful Development Team pt.4 – Wrap Up
So as we wrap up this series on building a successful development team you will see that there is one major underlying factor that runs through each topic that we discussed. {read more} Continue reading
Conflict and Team Development
Building a Successful Development Team Pt.3 – Dealing with Conflict from Aaron Irizarry on Vimeo.
We have looked at how to write code that is easy for our development team to pick up and use (and in so doing fueling efficiency, and better teamwork), then we looked at communication between team members, and some of the tools we can use to help facilitate effective team communication. In part 3 of this series we are going to look at dealing with conflict in a development team environment. Continue reading