Leadership

Leadership

Professional Neglect and Clear Text Passwords

For that past few years I’ve been the recipient of a monthly reminder from Emug (Edmonton Microsoft User Group). The contents of that email is where the problems lay. Every month that email comes in and it contains 3 pieces of information (plus a lot of boilerplate): A link to the Emug mailing list admin site My username My password in clear text It doesn’t take much thought to know that storing clear text password is a prime security issue. Sending those passwords in emails...

Hiring internally

In our Brownfield Application Development book, and in previous posts on this blog, Kyle and I have talked about the different personalities that you can encounter while working on a development project.  Unfortunately many of the types we listed, and that you see and remember, are negative.  Because development is such a social task (whether you like it or not) conflicts in personalities, styles and objectives are easily surfaced.  Add on a heavy dose of introversion and natural social ineptness and you have a cauldron of simmering conflict just waiting to bubble over. During the hiring process HR and...