More important than years of experience What are the key factors in estimating a programmer's ability? When software engineers and designers register with a job search site, they may be asked to submit a skills sheet: how many years of Jav…

Dogmatic and prejudiced. Preface When you increase the number of developers to grow a software product more, at some point you will need to reorganize the team structure. This is because as the complexity of the breadth and depth of what w…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …