Author:
Charlie Maffitt
I had a dilemma. My sister-in-law was getting married five hours away in south Georgia, and I needed a day off so I could make it to the rehearsal dinner on Friday afternoon. But it was the first week at my new job at Big Nerd Ranch, and I wanted to make the best impression possible.…
Author:
Brian Gardner
Highgroove recently ran an experiment: Could we work remotely, and do it well? We thought so, and to test the theory, we rented two houses in Rosemary Beach for a week.
This was no vacation. Our office had been relocated to a new setting, but the same expectations for meeting results applied.…
Author:
Jim Hodgson
There are a lot of ways to measure an individual’s work performance. When you think of a manager, perhaps you imagine her stopping by an employee’s office to see if he’s in his chair during work hours, or checking whether he’s spending too much time on Facebook.…
Author:
Stafford Brooke
About a year ago, I convinced our Charles Brian Quinn to take a chance on me. While I had nearly 10 years of experience in developing, deploying and maintaining web applications, I had no Ruby experience, no Rails experience and not one piece of paper certifying me of having any knowledge about computers in general.…
Author:
Kurt Nelson
If I were the new intern at any other company, I would most likely be fetching coffee, keeping the kitchen clean and working on the projects that nobody else wants. But here at Highgroove, things are entirely different.
First of all, I can’t even make coffee at Highgroove.…
Author:
Charlie Tanksley
You already know that Highgroove is a ROWE (Results Only Work Environment). I am just a week into my tenure at Highgroove, but I’m inclined to think that the ‘R’ could just as easily stand for “Respect,” at least at Highgroove.…
Author:
Dan Rice
It is no secret that Highgroove is a bona fide Results-Only Work Environment. As a team, we focus on getting work done and ensuring client satisfaction. When, where, and how we work is irrelevant, because what we care about is the answer to one question: Is the client happy today?…
Author:
Jim Hodgson
Picture it: A programmer in the eleventh hour of his months-long development cycle, desperately trying to complete his feature list. His palms sweaty, he slugs down another cup of coffee, trying not to think about the client meeting toward which he and his team inexorably march.…
Author:
Don Pottinger
One of the great things about Highgroove is our commitment to balancing work and free time. However, when I decided to embark on a month-long European adventure, I was determined to give the international working vacation a shot. I thought that I had prepared myself for the challenge of working abroad, but what ended up happening surprised me.…
Author:
Brian Hardy
Highgroovers keep up with new trends by attending at least one conference per year. Besides bringing us up to date on what’s shiny, they help us network, learn about the bleeding edge of our field from academics, and gain new perspectives on what we do.…
