More than a year ago I was laid off. Which happens to be a rather common occurrence in the game development field. Like many people in that situation I went into a frantic “search for new job” mode. I was lucky to land a new job at Phosphor Games. Which…
What now feels like ages ago, during a time of high stress, I started writing a diary. Not entirely a diary about myself.. But a diary about my observations of my then two year old daughter. It was therapy against the stress and trying times. If I could find something…
I’ve been both in a position of being managed and of doing management over time, and some times both at once. While talking to a fellow developer about his development problems I realized one difference between management styles when dealing with crises. Companies, and teams, that succeed do “crisis management”…
Last time I was a “company man” was 13 years ago while working for Jellyvision. At that job my salary was eventually adjusted to match industry averages. And until January of this year I worked on my own company. At times this was doing contract work and at others doing…