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I am rich

--Originally published at Blog Oliver

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In this chapter we finally see some of the projects finishing and before the imposible deadline imposed by Minister Belok. NNL was back and he asked Webster to see him with some urgency. Webster was a little nervous this could mean good or bad news. In the end it was a grateful surprise to Webster. Morovia was going public and the starting price for a share would be around 14 and 22 dollars. In the beginning Webster wasnt surprise until NNL remember him about the shares he earned when he signed for the job. So Webster is now rich. NNL asked  him if he wants to keep working in his job, because they had to renovate the contract because of politics. After thinking a little bit Webster declines the job and he points a person to be his succesor.

We learned that NNL name is Bill maybe related to Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft and xbox. He talks with Webster about finding a new country, maybe the United States, He thanked about Bulgaria, but someone has already bought it.

In the end of the chapter Minister Belok calls Webster by phone. He want to rent most of the building were Webster staff is working and move them to a smaller space. Minister Belok wants adopt a new business strategy called Lean and Mean, this formula is developed in failing companies and goes the opposite direction of Prosperous and Caring. So Webster hangs up, this is the first time we see him facing Minister Belok.

We can see Webster changing and learning about his experiences in Morovia and this chapter is a reflect of that. We see him more self-confident and with more guts.

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The most important part of software development

--Originally published at Blog Oliver

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I dint like this chapter so much because its not related to the main story, we just see Webster, Kenoros and Belinda talking about Kenoros grade of each project. This grade is bases on the amount of time dedicated to the designing of the project.  When we talk about design we refer to dividing the project into parts or modules not talking about UI, color, fonts, etc. We see lower grades in projects with more people. Trying to find an explanation Webster asks to Kenoros about this situation.

We learn that projects with a lot of people tend to write a political document and call it design. We just needs a few people for designing the project, you cant put most of the team in stan by until designing team finishes their job. Thats why this stage is skipped in large teams. But thats a big mistake, this is one of the most critical parts in creating software, its like the foundations and steps we need to follow in order to complete our job.

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Belinda once again saves the day an explains how we need to divide the project in the design stage and what advices we can follow. First of all we need to divide the project in chunks of almost the same size this way we have a proportional distribution of all the work needed. Also this chunks must make sense and wee need to order them in a the correct way. We can divide big groups into smaller ones and assign a chunk to each small team. But all teams must know what the others have done and what are they woking on. This way we dont lose time explaining everything to each team.

In the end we cant skip designing. A good design can save Continue reading "The most important part of software development"

Partial Review

--Originally published at Site Title

In the last two months I realize how wrong was my idea about the skills needed and what kind of activities does a manager has to develop in his career. 

Most of the time I though that being a manager were supervise people, tell them what do they have to do and how to do it, make some reports and follow the advance of the project. However, this things only make you a bossy person, what really makes you a manager or at least a good one is lot more qualities and characteristics, being a boss is only the beginning, you need to be a leader.

Before this course the entrepreneurship and administration courses that have before were more focused about making market analysis, swot analysis and all the activities needed to make successful your company or product, but never they talk about people, about how you have to behave to create a good environment and allow people communicate like a real team, you need a lot of skills to interact and listen others. Besides, I am an engineer and most of the courses are about specific topics of science  or quite technical, so your learn all the time about process and how to fix things but never someone use to tell you the cost of production or how expensive could be add an employee to the project and a delay that can generate, this is pretty important stuff needed that sometimes the only way to learned is in the hard way, living it.

Also something important learned in the course was some mathematical operation to make calculations about simple interest and compound, very important for investments, the cost of hiring new personal and how complex this process can be, due to the interview, capacitation, travel if is needed Continue reading "Partial Review"

First Partial Exam

--Originally published at Hector's Blog

In this first partial I learned about economy, in the talk we had with a visitor he told us about how the economy is managed, how you can save money and invest it, i learned that if you start saving money now, the interest (still don’t know very well how this work) generate more money […]
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