Tomasz Rakowski

Many European IT companies, especially the ones from Western Europe, decide to outsource their software development tasks, in order to increase their profit through reducing development costs. The reason for this is that these costs are the major and highest ones in the whole software development process. In such case IT providers outside Europe are [...]

There are views, nice views. Views of growth, prosperity, success. Still a lot to do – but what’s been done, is going now in the right direction. Not only the number of projects is rising – but the number of our own developers as well. It’s just like in a nature – the better soil, [...]

Winter is in its peak nowadays! It’s so cold, that minus five degrees (Celsius) feels
like hot, minus fifteen is typical and when it’s minus twenty five – we can say “it’s
getting a bit colder” A temperature exceeding minus thirty degrees is even happening
- what a weather, for God’s sake we’re not in a [...]

And it’s happened – the 2009 is over… The time is passing by like a TGV train – is it just me or it happens to everybody?
I look at my mates in the office and I see they know that it is 2010 now. However they don’t seem to bother – it looks like they [...]

As far as a team’s effectiveness is concerned, I can easily tell, that in my opinion, based on my eye-witnessed observations, employees who are familiar with and experienced in agile methodology are far better team players than those who aren’t. This statement’s got even stronger meaning, when you realize, that for me it is a [...]