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Your development team and your business goals must be aligned for you to develop a successful software product. Guide your team to a shared vision with our Peak Performance Team framework.  As a C-level executive of a software development company you have many things in your mind: rivaling companies gaining ground on your piece of […]

I love to draw! I’ve been doing it since the tender age of five; I am 53 and I still love it and today I am still doing it at Nearsoft. Let me tell you what it means to me. Being All I Can Be One of the many things I like about working at […]

I did something that most people think impossible: I changed careers!

If you are currently a student or you chose a college degree not related to Software Development, this is your chance to turn back.

Don’t be afraid to change.

You will always have options and you can make a change anytime. But the sooner you do it, the easier it is.

I will tell you why.

We have awesome facilities, the best equipment, and pay higher salaries than the average. All 250 Nearsoftians have an unlimited budget for books, a kitchen full of food, and enjoy offsites, called Team Building Weeks, twice a year, oftentimes in fancy places, like Cancun.

This is possible because our culture is strong enough to trust our teams to manage their own finances.

Here’s how you can make better financial decisions, along with your team.

In a Forbes article, David Marquet pointed out the origin of the word “company,” … the com- in company is derived the same root that gives us companion and comrade and the pan- is derived from the word for bread. So a company describes a group of people breaking bread together. David Marquette And that’s […]

According to Wikipedia, an asset is, “Anything tangible or intangible that can be owned or controlled to produce value. … Simply stated, assets represent value of ownership that can be converted into cash.” Given this definition, can we agree then that “asset” is a really crappy way to refer to people? Of course, most people […]

I recently visited my client in San Francisco. It was the first time we met in person.

Putting names to faces is a great experience. Getting to know people as fully functional human beings makes a huge difference in the way we work together. Don’t skimp on doing this. It is worth every penny.

For my part, I wanted to make a good impression and sweet, delicious coyotas hit the mark.

Self-management sounds threatening to many people. That’s in the context of a workplace. But we, as adults self-manage all the time. Think of a barbeque and how it all comes together without a command-and-control structure.

It sounds like utter nonsense, doesn’t it?

Three years ago I accepted a job at Nearsoft. What I didn’t know then, was that the “worst” was yet to come.

If you’re like me, you are coming from a more traditional office environment. With the new job I was excited about the pay increase and the flexible schedule. (Yes! No more early mornings, night owls. No more working late at night, early birds.) That’s all good and well, but I also found a lot of scary stuff around here.

Today I had a dream. Or should I say “a nightmare”? I dreamed that I went back to working with a multinational company, I would tell you the name, but then I’d most likely be scolded. I woke up startled, as if I had something urgent to finish – a task that was due the […]