Sándor

Insufficient education

“This should have been mentioned in the school” – said by a colleague, sitting enervated after a giant failure in a demo. Theory often fails in real environment.

Today I noticed, that provision of a training is more effective if you beam out the presentation of same topics on the wall just behind you. Also noticed, that if your audience laughs a lot, it is not necessarily a reflection of your brilliant presentation, however, it may also come from the fact that youContinue reading “Today’s experiment”

Indirect change management

How to lead the change of an organization without having direct control on them? I have a success story, I’ll share it with you soon.

The advisor

Today we started our “family firm”, providing the following services: advisory in software development, quality and change management, operation of a rent-a-flat and guest house, child care and skill development for children Horizontal diversification is OK.

Assessment Center

According to my 2011-2012 statistics hiring a software tester requires 5 interviews. An interview requires 5 CVs. This year we have to manage a growth again, 12+ vacancies are in H1 2013. This would require 60 interviews and 300 CVs. It’s pain to even think about that. Last year’s statistic showed some other issues. WeContinue reading “Assessment Center”

Recruitment

Today we have finished the hugest recruitment campaign I have ever done. In November we needed to fill FTE headcounts of 7, and in February another 14 headcounts had been opened. All of them were QA and testing related. The first challenge was to define the structure we filled, together with the required competences. ThenContinue reading “Recruitment”

Next step

In November I started a reorganization. On 1st November, 2011, I announced the change to the team as soon as it was accepted by the management. I wanted to apply a mixture of two management styles: management by system, and management by objectives. In previous situations I used management by exception instead of objectives, butContinue reading “Next step”

Ba1 – negative outlook

Last week spouse had a brilliant idea: she attends to a course to learn child caring, and pass the exam enabling her to found a day-care. Such day-cares are supported by the government to extend the capacity of state kindergardens. Recent government has expressed their support many times encouraging people to invest on this area.Continue reading “Ba1 – negative outlook”

Szolgálati közlemény!

Hej! Feltehetőleg azért látogattatok el erre az oldalra, mert kaptatok tőlem egy – ilyen magatartást javasló – üzenetet. Többen kaptatok ilyet, ha körülnézel az irodában, lehet, hogy a többiek is ezt a lapot nézegetik. Lényeg a lényeg, azért szóltam néhányatoknak, mert egy kisebb bővülést tervezünk, és ehhez szükség van különböző területeken jó szakemberekre. Olyanokra, mintContinue reading “Szolgálati közlemény!”

Reorganization

Two weeks ago (as I posted here) I have got a team again. Of course I had seen what is coming, so I was able to prepare to drive the change smoothly. There were many issues I wanted to solve immediately. One and the most important issue was that the former manager and I haveContinue reading “Reorganization”