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“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created” Albert Einstein
Specialists tend to take into account only their narrow field of interest, they don’t see the whole picture. That’s impossible to know everything - that’s true. But it makes sense to pay attention to words of Einstein - otherwise such people are doomed to solve symptoms of the same problem again and again.
If we look at wider angle then a company presents combination of people, structure (system) and its environment.
This site is about people and structure of a company. It is about people and a team. It is about a team and a company.
This site is about how to organize software development in a way that provides advantages to all participants, how to build sustainable team and organization, which are able to learn and improve themselves.
About me
My name is Dmitry Zdanovich.
I got acquainted with computer in early childhood. It was ZX Spectrum (aka Speccy). It was so interesting to create my own programs on Assembler for Z80. And long nights of debugging were so romantic 
Later I got interested in academic programming. Took participation in several contests (including national ones). At the university I organized several students contests by myself (using my own software and authoring tasks). Some time later I was invited to be an author at scholars’ Olympiads.
Eventually it was over - I was pulled into software development. Team work, long discussions about design, what does customer need. Great time.
I had a unique possibility - during my work at the entering committee at university I was using software that my team had developed. I became a user for a while!
I was a developer, a senior developer, a team leader. Initially I didn’t like being a team leader - it distracted me from creating software. But the more I worked as a leader the more I liked it. Finally I came to understanding that I like working with people more than creating code. I became a manager.
Of course, there were several times when I thought how good it was developing software (usually such thoughts visited me when I faced much pressure :-)). But when I saw how teams succeeded I’ve got that it’s worth being a manager.
The time went by. I began to think about organization as a whole. People are still the most interesting and important part for me, so I see an organization as a community of people.
Now I’m focused on people, management, organization development and again people.
Contacts
You can contact me at LinkedIn.