“It’s a funny thing. After almost twenty years of drawing a paycheque for creating software, people generally want to hire me because they want me to duplicate the successes I’ve had. The model seems to be ‘do the things you’ve done successfully before, and you’ll be successful now.’ My experience is that this has never worked on its own. Success in software development is at least as much about avoiding failure modes as it is about ‘best practices.’”

“Who is your ideal boss? I firmly believe that a good boss is one of the factors shaping your decision on whether to accept a job offer… Sometimes this factor is the only decisive factor in making such a decision especially if you have worked with the boss in the past and he ‘proved’ himself as a trusted lead and ‘demonstrated’ understanding and care.”