So you’re choosing to leave and be unemployed? My boss asked, almost two decades ago. I was not exactly sure how things would turn out, but I wanted to start my own business and reached a point where it would be pivotal to my professional life: I had to try it. As soon as I…

Have you ever felt the need to stand out? Either personally or professionally? Both? I like to think it’s all about risk-taking. When we look into successful people and their businesses, there’s a commonality: they all do something no one else does. It seems easy to analyze things from the outside, maybe even evident if…

Over the years I’ve seen many software development projects that follow a typical pattern of failure. They fail because they lack passion, they are executed purely as a transaction. As usual it starts with a set of requirements, a deadline and a budget. Then stakeholders and sales sign off on that promise. When the development team…