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Tips for Hiring the Right Engineers
Engineering skills are always in demand, raising the pressure on companies that want to recruit and retain the best possible engineers. For recruiters, bosses, and HR staff, what’s the best way to...
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The Year 2038 Problem: Y2K on Steroids?
This is how the world ends: not with a whimper, or a bang, or in fire and ice, but because of a signed 32-bit integer. Here’s the issue: Many bits of software rely on a 32-bit integer to store time....
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Apple’s iOS Maps and the High Cost of Management Failure
In 2012, Apple abandoned its longtime reliance on Google’s mapping data to power its iOS Maps app, opting instead to go with data collected and curated in-house. The result was an epic disaster, with...
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How to Manage Older Tech Workers
If you’re a younger manager, you’re bound to confront extra challenges in managing a tech team: Wrangling others gets easier with experience, but you’re probably still picking up some tricks, and...
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Is Zappos Leading a New Management Trend With ‘Holacracy?’
Tony Hsieh and Evan Williams have seen the future, and it’s called holacracy. Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, and Williams, the Twitter co-founder now starting up the Medium blogging hub, have both embraced...
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This Is Why Google Likes Its Leaders Boring
It may be that the best leaders aren’t those who inspire, or have the most product knowledge, or stand up to management on behalf of their team. Walter Chen, CEO of the productivity service IDoneThis,...
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SourceForge Interview: CMDBuild
Over at SourceForge, the August “Staff Pick” project is CMDBuild, a software platform that allows developers to configure a custom database of assets and design-related workflow processes. The...
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Opportunities Expand for Program Managers
As more companies look to better manage costs and align strategy across multiple tech projects, the role of program manager is gaining notice and becoming better-defined. And for some project...
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Has Your Company Mastered Apps?
Smartphones and tablets are now ubiquitous among companies, along with customized apps that monitor everything from customer service to shipping logistics. Despite that ubiquity, a new report from the...
View ArticlePost-Healthcare.gov, U.S. Government Wants to Fix Its Websites
Several months after the Healthcare.gov debacle, it seems the federal government wants to make sure its websites and mobile applications operate as smoothly and seamlessly as possible. To that end, the...
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The Key to Steve Jobs’ Management Genius
People like to call Apple co-founder Steve Jobs a “genius,” but he wasn’t a genius in the same way as, say, Alan Turing. He wasn’t a legendary developer, and he didn’t spend years perfecting hardware...
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Google’s Ex-CEO on Building a Strong Company
As part of the effort to promote their new business-management book, How Google Works, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Product Jonathan Rosenberg put together a huge...
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The Key to Retaining Your Best Employees
Carly Guthrie, who used to run human resources at iconic New York City restaurant Per Se before jumping into the tech world, sat down recently with First Round to discuss what really drives employees...
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Daily Tip: In a Crisis, Candor Is Key
When Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo broke apart over the Mojave Desert last week, it represented a major crisis for Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson, who has spent years shepherding the project...
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Want a Successful Project? Try a ‘Pre-Mortem’
Many companies host post-project meetings to discuss what worked and what didn’t, a process known as “post-mortems.” But instead of waiting until the end of a project to figure out what might have...
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Is ‘Facebook for Work’ in Development?
Having built the world’s latest social network, Facebook has focused in recent months on other technology segments. It bought Oculus VR, builder of the eponymous virtual-reality headset, as well as...
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Daily Tip: A Wrong Time for Right Decisions
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has one of the most difficult jobs in tech: turning around a once-storied brand that’s spent the past couple years collapsing in slow motion. His comeback strategy has...
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5 Tips for Scaling Your Fast-Growing Startup
By Mohit Garg Fast-growing companies have an enviable problem. They’re growing headcount, with many of them hiring as fast as they can. And while this sounds like a nice issue to have, it’s actually a...
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Mobile App Development’s Brewing Crisis
Mobile developers aren’t just in short supply relative to the white-hot demand for building new apps; many of them also find themselves at odds with the mobile strategies set by the organizations for...
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What Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Teaches About Management
A new profile of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in the New York Times isn’t very kind to her two-year tenure at the flailing tech giant. While Yahoo invented the online-advertising business, and enjoyed...
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