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How to prevent dispute in IT companies

Common problems Preface: quarrels tend to occur in IT companies Working in an IT company, you may occasionally encounter quarrels. We often hear stories of co-founders leaving a start-up company due to a dispute. It is also rather common i…

Scrum may not be inherently necessary for Web development in Japan

Is a full-time Scrum Master needed? Introduction I recently read the paper "The New New Product Development Game," which is the source of Scrum. It is generally a discussion of how US companies can become as good as Japanese companies by a…

Designing and Operating a Successful IT Company Evaluation System, Learning from Fujitsu's Collapse Case Study

Notes from reading "Fujitsu from the inside". I read "Fujitsu from the inside" This is an old book from 2004, but I read "The Collapse of Fujitsu's 'Performance-Based Management' from the Inside" , which describes the inside story of Fujit…

How NTT changed assessment & work style

The inside story of a traditional IT company Preface NTT Group, which has 330,000 employees, is working on reforming its personnel system. Fujitsu has 130,000 employees and Toyota has 360,000, so you can see the scale of the project. I fou…

How Sony laid off employees

Book review of Sony Layoff Introduction Layoffs are booming at American tech companies. Information is summarized in layoffs.fyi. Twitter, in particular, reports that more than half of its employees have left through layoffs or voluntary r…

How to deal with businesses with hiring difficulties

I don't have the answer yet. Preface Although it is not true recently, Japan has had a popular salaryman working style of lifetime employment. The rate of job change is low compared to other countries. Startups are required by investors to…

How to find CTO-class engineer

opinionated article What is CTO? CTO(Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer) is the top of company in charge of technology. Some companies also have VP of Engineering as different role. In that case, recruiting, education and …