Salma Saad

Many companies, particularly consultancies believe that anyone who works an eight-hour day is a serious slacker. In my opinion, having people chronically work excessive hours is a sign of poor management. In this article I will share my thoughts on what we should and should not b... (more)

My son took a bite of his hamburger and immediately exclaimed "it's too spicy!" I knew there was no spice in the burgers (okay there was some black pepper) as I had made them from scratch. I ate some myself and said, "See, not spicy". He took a long hard look at me and then he sa... (more)

You were an individual contributor and you were good at your job. Now you're a manager and you've stopped producing something tangible. So what good are you? Why would your team respect you? Aren't they better at the work than you are? The manager job description has a concrete ... (more)

Sharing software and services across teams poses many challenges. At the minimum, each team will have its own agenda and release schedule and will be largely unaware of each other's day-to-day work. Sharing becomes even more difficult in cases when the teams are geographically se... (more)

Maintaining complicated legacy applications is a challenge, which is often made worse by lack of documentation, nonintuitive design, and coding practices. Unfortunately almost all software developers will find themselves with such an assignment at some point in their careers. In... (more)