Author: ericktec80

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In the start of this chapter it was very interesting how they evaluate the teams in terms of how they did the design of the project, I consider important that the biggest team did worse than the other teams because for planning is harder to that with a lot of people instead of just few people that design everything and then divided the work to the rest of the team, but the problem with that is that you have people that is not working until the design is finished.

The problem of not making a good partition and design from the beginning is that you consume a lot of time just in meetings with your teammates to organize how you can do the job, that means more interaction that consume a lot of your time just planning something that should have been planned from the beginning and now you are wasting time in doing the planning and coding at the same time.

I agree with the graph above, the ideal form of starting a project first is to have low staff numbers, this is because at the beginning you are not coding or dividing the work, at the beginning you should be doing some planning and design how the project is going to be divided, how many modules and then with all the design you can start getting more staff and assign them a specific part of the project and thanks to that avoid a lot of meetings and the most avoiding frustration among your staff.

So in conclusion is better to design everything fist with few people that letting a lot of people to start the design, because in the last case the design would be divided into teams and then it will end like an attempt of design Continue reading "Chapter 19"

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In this chapter it was mentioned how in a single organization everyone has different goals and is important to understand this because if you try that all the members of the organization or the team has the same goal it will be bad in terms of motivation. So in my opinion is very important to understand that everyone in the team has their own motivations and create facilities to make those goals easier will increase the motivation that the members have in the project.

Another thing I consider important in this chapter is that in every project there is always conflict and is important to accept this and start working on how to solve them and try to reach an agreement in the matter, and try to remember those persons or groups that are in conflict that all of them are part of the same team and the problem they are facing are in the opposite side so they together have to solve that situation.

Chapter 18

In the chapter when they were talking about the importance of keeping the workers happy and motivated them to stay in the team instead of having a team asking to change to another project is very important because in this case Mr .T sacrifice a hour of work to give more time to their workers to relax and have good time and thanks to that those employees stay in the project that is much better than having to change teams and spend time training them to do another work.

I like how Mr . T said that conflict is not something reprehensible, I agree with that because people will work better if they can think freely, because if you try to prevent conflict by punishment then some members in the team will start to

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I like the part when Aristotle told Mr. Tompkins that he had a manager that started to do his job by fear this is bad because as I said in some chapters before a manager that use fear to motivate people is not a very good manager, this because people perform worse in a state of fear instead of making them feel part of a team where their contribution is important and that feeling makes people feel good about themselves.

So using fear or contempt to motivate the employees is a sign that the manager is not good, this because all that causes are negative effects in the team and I agree in the part that if a upper manager motivate their people by fear then another lower manager is going to copy that style of managing the project an so on, so as we saw in the last chapter just by making people feel fear and pressure that does not mean that they are going to think and do their jobs faster.

Moving on in the part they started to talk about the spec documentation it was very interesting how in a professional project somethings that happen in school can appear, that specification documents that didn’t say anything about the project were the product of individual shame, it had happened to me in the school that I wrote some complex code and part of my team instead of asking me what I was doing in that part of the code or why a made that part in that way, they don’t ask because of shame and then I realised that part of the code was wrong. So in the case of the novel it happened something similar, the documentation that said all the specifications for that big project of

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In this chapter at the beginning I consider minister Belok is a very bad manager, first he didn’t care about what is the opinion of the workers in the different projects, he just wanted to win and win money without any investment, other thing is that he had the idea that the work would be faster if you put more and more people into it instead of making smart decisions and if it wasn’t enough he had the brilliant idea to hire courses that the only thing those courses are going to do is delay the projects. This man is the clear example of how you don’t want to run a project or different projects, because in reality the only thing you are doing is giving extra job to your people that can’t be done, so what is the point of doing this.

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In the part that Belinda and Mr. T are talking about how good projects have overtime work and the importance of pressure I agree with them in the part that good projects have overtime work, this because you can face some problems that are necessary to fix at that moment, but too much overtime work can be bad for the projects you are running, first because the workers in this case programmers get tired and lose motivation with too much work then you add more pressure that can be in my point of view unhealthy and can burn out the workers and all this for nothing because the project can’t be done faster than is currently be done, you are just going to make people in the project to make more errors and be more anxious about the project.

In conclusion I agree with what their data said about how pressure does not make a significant improvement Continue reading "Chapter 15"

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This second partial was a lot different from the first one, first because the COVID-19 so all the classes became online, for some people this change was very challenging because they don’t have the sufficient self control to make all their works from home because at home, you have a lot more distractions and you have the computer in front of you instead of a teacher in the same place as you are, so thanks to that I learned how to work better at home while taking classes without distractions.

Another thing this partial change compared to the last one was the dynamics of the classes, I consider this second partial was very helpful because we heard experiences of people that are already working and doing well and how they started in that world. These things are important because at the Tec de Monterrey we learn how to do some basic things about programming, but we have to start making our own experiences first to know what we want to become at the future and learn more things about what we are doing instead of only learn from the classes because as the guest speakers said you learn a lot more when you are doing the things at work than in the school.

So in general the things I consider the most important and where the majority of guest speakers agree on are first making contacts, I am a person that I like to make thing alone but I have to change this mindset because the majority of the opportunities you have in a professional career are thanks to the contacts you have, because you can be very good at something but if nobody knows you is very difficult to have opportunities at work. So to improve this I decided

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In this chapter in the part that Mr. Tompkins and the Audit Group manager start talking about the importance of a following the same methods, it was very illogical from my point of view how the manager said that even if the project has something that can’t be apply to that process you must follow it is kind of nonsense because the process you use to produce in this case software must be the one that allow you as a team to complete the project without problems in my opinion, so in this part I consider that is important to have a process that you can replicate the times you want but also do some changes to the process if necessary.

Another thing that I have experience with is the specification document, instead of using a other document in the project of reta 6-0 we use the user manual as the specification document, this thanks that in this document are all the functionality that the web page in my case needs so it would be a waste of time to write the same thing in another format, is just better to make use of your time in production if you have already a document even if is in another format,, so in conclusion of this chapter I agree with Mr .Tompkins about the danger of standard process can make you miss important shortcuts.

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Chapter 14

In this chapter I agree in the part they talk about the importance of not showing you dislike to someone at the moment of speaking because if you show to the person you are talking to some anger or dislike all you said would be in vain.

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I like the idea of the Mr. Kenoros that said the process improvement is to subtract steps, I Continue reading "Chapter 13"

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When T. Johns was presented to us I was surprise of how he actually start making questions to Mr. T and then he answers his own question giving all the data with precision.

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In this chapter they start talking about how you can quantify the amount of work that has to be done in a more specific way called function points and they show us a table with all the projects that Mr .T with his team were running at that moment and the quantity of function points of each project. Another important think is the importance of measuring the production rate and the variation this because all this data is important to make more precise plans and assumptions and make measures of time more precise than without that information, and if you don’t have that information but you have worked with that team before you can use the past project to obtain the information necessary to start making all the planning for future projects.

One quote that I like and I agree with is in the part that said “We are not losing him, we are just putting him to work at something that can make use of all his talents. That is what we do as managers. Apply people where their skills and talents can really shine. That’s what management is all about.” I like these quote a lot because I have seen in some project of the school that one of the best people in a certain area are doing things that are not fundamental instead of using all the knowledge they have in the important things and all because a bad decision made by the leader of the team. I agree that is important to let people use all

Continue reading "Chapter 12"

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First I would like to talk about all the tools I have learned to use, first one before the class I had heard about wordpress but I have never tried before that and now I know some basic things about it and how you can make complex web pages with some facilities that wordpress offer and you can make your own plugins to make your web page a lot more personalized.

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Another important tool that I have learned in the class was the use of wiki, before the class I had never tried to do something with wiki and I didn’t realized the importance of share knowledge and be able to edit some pages that someone else made to add more important knowledge, some other thing I learned was some of the syntax to use in this tool.

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Now talking about the guest speakers that came to the class the one I like the most was of the person that told us about the importance of personal finances and why is important to start saving some part of our salaries for when we grow older we can have financial freedom because some statistics that he showed us were very scary of how many people is going to be struggling in the matter of money in comparison of how many people are going to achieve the financial freedom. When he started to talk about real estate it was very interesting of how a house that before costs a prize with the capital gain you get after some years are a big deal, but you have to have vision and think in a long or medium term to get some benefit from that.

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Then about the reading of the book The deadline somethings that I consider important are first when you are

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At the beginning of the chapter it was funny how Mr. Tompkins said that he was happy with his life in Morovia and being “fired” kidnapped really was the luckiest thing can happen to him, because thanks to that he was working there and has the opportunity to learn a lot of things but I don’t want to get kidnapped.

One thing I consider important is how Mr. Tompkins mentioned that he was going to had a brainstorming session about a problem they need to solve about the time of a project, I have read about the importance of brainstorming and in the book the startup equation it mention that brainstorming is a good way to create new ideas but it is important first to do this exercise alone so in this way you can think in crazy ideas without worry about what people will think about that and then when you have few ideas you can pass to the next stage that would be brainstorming with your team and in this way you can obtain better ideas or complete the idea someone proposed.

When Mr. Tompkins was so happy about how the project was running and the team he was working with then the NNL go away and let Belok take the leadership, so Belok had the incredible idea to reduce the time to finish the project and he said that deadline was just ambition but possible and he start making the assumption that incrementing the number of people in the teams will make the project finish faster but that was not true because when new people integrates in the project they consume time of the people that have been in the project and have experience.

Another thing I did not consider appropriate was when Belok intimidate Mr. Tompkins Continue reading "Chapter 11"

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Whit the current situation thanks to the COVID-19 a lot of people started to work from home and other people just don’t have the opportunity to work from home risking their health to get money, but talking about the people working from home the majority don’t have experience with that making works a little bit more challenging and more time consuming, but talking with my experience working from home with other people is not as bad as the majority would think, first you can communicate with your team using some online tools like Zoom, Skype, Discord, etc…, and use some tools for working together like google drive or in the part of code using different git pages like GitHub or Bit-bucket that let you modify different files and share it with your team with another benefits, another advantage of working from home is that you can administrate your time as you want and doing some things you like in the time you take a break.

Working from home have a lot of advantages and commodities but it also have some disadvantages, for example in my experience working from home sometimes in the reunions online we have different technical problems like for example audio, or the internet of someone was slow at the moment or in my case my internet went down for two days so I have to go to a coffee store and work from there, but these problems were uncommon.

One of the main thing mentioned in the podcast that I have experienced myself is that some people wants to maintain their privacy at home, so when someone insist on turn on your webcam those people feel uncomfortable about different factors like the size of their house or apartment, their children or even the conversations of their family

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