One Red Question: Which business book influenced you most?

The Effective Executive? Good to Great? The Art of War?

Which time-worn, dog-eared tome has a place of honour in your library?

Paul Carvalho shares a decade’s worth of experience on the ambiguities and intricacies of evaluating testers.
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Platoon redux: Canadian tech style

I was hired as an ADR and within a year I was promoted and running my own accounts and managing global partner relationships.
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Agile development methodologies—a round table discussion

Part commercial, part Platoon spoof. A Canadian tech company gets 300,000 hits for its video marketing efforts.
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Three Canadian experts discuss the strengths, weaknesses and approaches of the Agile framework in a round table discussion.
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Canada home to 1/4 of North America’s fastest growing wireless companies

The story line is baseball. But the concepts apply to business, especially to early-stage companies that live and die on recruiting.
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The bird blows its own horn

Canadian companies did well in Deloitte’s inaugural Wireless Fast 50 with three in the top ten and five in the the top twenty.
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Take the reins of a challenging and important role that will exercise your leadership and organizational skills as often as it does your technical expertise.

Effectiveness will be easy to prove in this metric-driven role where performance measurements are consistent and well-defined. Your team will look to you for the leadership and structure that come with strong management skills.

Learn and share with high-calibre peers in the Software Engineering department as you deliver projects across the organization.

There’s a real mix of long-term and short-term assignments here, and you&#146ll roll up your sleeves on everything from enterprise software development to server and handheld components.

This is a chance to introduce a world-class software brand to a huge, untouched Canadian market. You&#146ll work from your own office and enjoy a comp plan that pays top-performing sales professionals what they are worth.

This US company already has an aggressive US sales team and they are looking for a Canadian closer.

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Take billion dollar products to market as you lead the Presentation and Desktop Server Product teams. Combine insight, experience and field work as you lead products, develop common feature sets, and find innovative solutions for the broader go-to-market strategy.

This role will see you work both in and out of the trenches: you&#146ll collaborate with engineering and marketing peers to define product release requirements and go-to-market approaches; combine tech savvy with big-picture vision to turn your ideas into reality.

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Research in Motion is building a new team of testing specialists to ensure that their server products are fail-proof in real world situations.

You’ll develop creative scenario simulations, combining performance testing, system testing and functional testing. This position has plenty of growth potential, and you’ll be part of a critical new group that has final sign-off on product releases.

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This next-generation BI vendor has never had a pilot installation fail to turn into a client and their 60+ plant base reaches into the pharma, aluminum and chemicals sectors.

Manage an international implementation team in a role that is part consultant, part project lead, and part evangelist. This is an environment that is growing aggressively and offers opportunity for leadership, creativity and personal success.

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