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Building a Balanced Team

Fred George, noted Agile Developer and thought leader, had a great post where he described his ideal ratios of developer skill levels when building an Agile development team. One of the foundations of his theory is that the number of Apprentice or Junior level developers should remain small on any given...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-09-2007
Are you an Overpaid Payable?

I spoke with a friend the other day who came to the startling realization that they had become overpaid. Most people would define being overpaid as receiving a salary above the current market standard for your responsibilities and skill set. Taking a moniker from a company which shares an office in my...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2007
Developers who become Managers

Rob Walling had an amazing post where he described his experiences and frustrations during his career when moving from senior software development roles into management roles. Much of Rob's frustrations stemmed from losing the creative satisfaction one gets from writing code despite gaining the money...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-06-2007
Things I learned about Software in College

Dare Obasanjo started a thread listing things he learned about software while in college and Scott Hanselman extended it by adding three more things he learned in college and three things he learned outside of college. Both bloggers had some great points and I recommend reading both posts as well as...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-28-2007
My first week at Telligent

A few friends and colleagues have asked me how my first week of Telligent went. And I assume some of my readers may be wondering the same thing. In a nutshell, my first week at Telligent was excellent . I've been given some new responsibilities, a larger role at a major Dallas area client, and some...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-17-2007
DDNUG and the After Party

Last night, my good friend Dave O'Hara gave an excellent presentation on Automated Unit Testing with the .NET framework to the Dallas .NET User Group . Dave covered the tools available to write unit tests in .NET including NUnit and others. He also covered Mock Objects and Dependency Injection, two...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-15-2007
More Lead Developer tips

You can never have enough useful tips on becoming a better lead developer . From Roy Osherove, there are some great ones in this list . To this list I would add the following: Be open to ideas and approaches from your team members, regardless of their seniority. Don't dismiss a great idea because...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-09-2007
Being understood versus understanding

A friend pointed me to this great article from Business Week talking about Ford's new CEO, Alan Mullaly, and some of Mullaly's experiences in trying to change the culture within Ford. I found one paragraph that correlated to some of my past experiences as a software developer: After a couple...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-30-2007
Following the Telliterns

Internships are often an exciting experience for students entering many fields. They can be a great place to learn, network with peers, and develop lasting professional relationships that will be important when first starting a career. They are also a great way to "test drive" a company that...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-24-2007
Ideal Software Management

Tim Stall had a great post entitled "Why would someone work for your company?" where he outlined a number of things companies can do to be more attractive for top developer talent without breaking the budget. I highly recommend reading the entire post, but one point in particular got me thinking...

Posted to Karthik Hariharan's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-20-2007

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