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I am Silvan Mühlemann, tilllate.com-Co-founder, jQuery and Zend Framework-Coder, Scrum-Master, Dual-Daddy, Runner
This blog reflects my thoughts on web technologies and management of web projects.
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Category Archives: Management
Encouraging Code Reuse (inspired by jQuery)
«This class is unusable. I have reprogram it from scratch.» Does that sound familiar to you? – To me it is something I heard over and over again from my developers. Resulting in having five or six implementation of an … Continue reading
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“No laptops” at meetings?
“No Laptop.” This was one of the rules which was agreed upon at the Certified Scrum Master course I just took this week. In the first place I was a bit surprised. What if there is an urgent e-mail coming … Continue reading
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Make them feel welcome.
Recently a friend of mine had his first day of work with a new employer. The company was famous to be very employer-friendly. Surprisingly, my friend experienced the opposite: When he came, his boss was not around. No one told … Continue reading
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Scrum: How we do Sprint Retrospectives
Four weeks have passed since the last sprint planning meeting. Sprint number two has come to an end. It’s time for the sprint retrospective. The motivation for the sprint retrospective is: Visualize the accomplishment – important for the team morale … Continue reading
Implementing scrum at tilllate.com
The first sprint is done! Yes we finally started doing Scrum at tilllate.com*. Well, it’s not exactly how Schwaber and Sutherland would expect it. But our way fits our team. And the acceptance in both the IT team and the … Continue reading
Holiday season: The best time to… work
For me, the time around Christmas and New Year is the best time of the year. Of course, there’s the peaceful family reunions around the christmas tree. The cozy evenings at home on the couch. Or days where you can … Continue reading
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What motivates your programmer?
We’d like to deliver great products on tilllate.com. For great products you need motivated developers. So recently, Leo, Stefan, Maarten, Mario and me did a brainstorming about “what motivates programmers”. Here are the results: 1. Offer him the best type … Continue reading
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Five ways to impress at the job interview
As CTO I often have to do job interviews. Recently, I spent two days interviewing candidates for our tilllate development center Belgrade (Yes, I am one of these brave CTOs having a distributed team :-)). So here’s five tips to … Continue reading
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Visit of the Silverlight evangelists
There are two ways convince a company to switch to a new programming language. The old fashioned way is to send out salesperson. They get in touch with the CEO show them a few Power-Point slides, throw some buzzwords at … Continue reading
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Applikationen von Drittanbietern integrieren.
Bei tilllate ist momentan eine Diskussion zum Thema “Integration von externen Applikationen auf www.tilllate.com” im Gange. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet Kosten und Risiken einer solchen Integration. Beispiel: Anstatt ein Forum selbst zu entwickeln, soll FUDForum oder phpBB genommen werden und auf … Continue reading
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