tl;dr 1. Displaying clear, concise, and constant communication. 2. Properly setting priorities with good time management. 3. Effective exploitation of available tools and people. Bonus: Proper emotional management of yourself and stakeholders. Describing the most important qualities of a developer is difficult to do objectively without specific limitations or context. Many variables can influence the answer to this question. These variables...
Innovation is the concept that proves how human beings can perpetually travel farther and farther down the path of reasoning. Every new innovation is built upon another and consistently increases our intellectual power. We are truly in exponential times. There is so much information being discovered and stored that it is only leading to even more discoveries and information that can again...
What you spend your time doing is who you are. It is everything that matters about you. Deciding how to spend your time is quite the challenge. A good requirement for the purpose of your actions would be to ensure that what you spend your time doing improves your life or that of any part of the cosmos at all (deciding whether...
Rules and laws are only secondary to their creators: intentions and goals. This concept is often lost in blind obedience. People become so attached to the rule of law that they forget the real reasons behind why a particular rule is in place. Rules should not be followed in every single situation. You must understand a rule and law before you follow...
Team building should not be an assignment by management. It should be an introduction to potential teammates. The team members should take it from there. I have experienced it so many times where teams are basically randomly generated based on skill sets. Skills are not as important as personalities. Almost all friction on a team I observe is political, not ability related...