Introduction
In 1999, Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith founded Redgate Software, a software company, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. They founded the company with the goals of working together to do something that was self-satisfying and to make a technical contribution by creating software tools (Chapman, 2013). The name Redgate was named after the street in Florence, Italy, Via Porta Rossa, where Neil Davidson once lived in (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate kick-started the company by producing their first software tool, Aardvark, a bug tracker and then moved on to developing other products like SQL and .NET (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate won eighth place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Company to Work for Award since 2007, …show more content…
This stage is known as market validation where the teams start testing new markets for new product ideas. Each employee in a team is given tasks by the assigned UX people (Barbaroux, 2014). The UX people in the first division act as managers in this stage, where they will assist the employees on the project and discuss ideas with other UX people, before the projects move on to the second division. From there, the final product ideas are advanced to the second division, which is the accelerator. This division has 3 teams as well, but are more multi-disciplined than the first division, where the UX people will work together with other positions like product managers, testers, developers and more, to create a mature product (Kokemuller, 2016). Then, the UX people will have to share the team’s ideas with project managers before the product is made. The mature products are later sent to the third division for maintenance of the quality and to make sure the customers are satisfied with it (Barbaroux, 2014). In division 3, 6 UX people work in pairs to cover 40 products in a rotating manner according to 1 or 2 products at a time based on a pipeline schedule. Here, the UX people are still part of their multi-disciplinary teams, but are also managed by other UX people, where they share comments on the matured products for improvements (Barbaroux, 2014). Lastly, the fourth division is where one visual UX goes around the divisions to merge …show more content…
In a way, Simon Galbraith is shown to have slightly inherited his leadership skills as well as enhancing it while Neil Davidson’s leadership skills sways more to the made leader. Based on the Great Man theory, leaders are born and not made (Changing Minds, 2002). It is further elaborated that individuals are able to be born into the world possessing various traits that are not found in everyone else. Soon, stating that great leaders are born with certain traits that help them to rise and lead (University Alliance, 2016). With this theory, Simon Galbraith seemed to have inherited his father’s leadership trait as his father was a businessman and Simon watched his father run a building firm as he was growing up (Cambridge Network, 2014). Despite that, Simon can also be perceived as a made leader like Neil Davidson. According to behavioural theories, leaders are made by going through a process of teaching, learning and observing (Hyacinth, 2014). Having a father who was a businessman, Simon got the gist to how a business works from listening to him over dinner (Cambridge Network, 2014). Identically, Neil worked in a small software company near Guildford before co-founding Redgate (Davidson, 2012). Neil acquired his leadership trait by observing how his previous job’s supervisor handles the company and learned from him (Davidson, 2012). To conclude, studies held at the University of Illinois revealed
In 1999, Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith founded Redgate Software, a software company, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. They founded the company with the goals of working together to do something that was self-satisfying and to make a technical contribution by creating software tools (Chapman, 2013). The name Redgate was named after the street in Florence, Italy, Via Porta Rossa, where Neil Davidson once lived in (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate kick-started the company by producing their first software tool, Aardvark, a bug tracker and then moved on to developing other products like SQL and .NET (Red Gate Software Ltd, 2016). Redgate won eighth place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Company to Work for Award since 2007, …show more content…
This stage is known as market validation where the teams start testing new markets for new product ideas. Each employee in a team is given tasks by the assigned UX people (Barbaroux, 2014). The UX people in the first division act as managers in this stage, where they will assist the employees on the project and discuss ideas with other UX people, before the projects move on to the second division. From there, the final product ideas are advanced to the second division, which is the accelerator. This division has 3 teams as well, but are more multi-disciplined than the first division, where the UX people will work together with other positions like product managers, testers, developers and more, to create a mature product (Kokemuller, 2016). Then, the UX people will have to share the team’s ideas with project managers before the product is made. The mature products are later sent to the third division for maintenance of the quality and to make sure the customers are satisfied with it (Barbaroux, 2014). In division 3, 6 UX people work in pairs to cover 40 products in a rotating manner according to 1 or 2 products at a time based on a pipeline schedule. Here, the UX people are still part of their multi-disciplinary teams, but are also managed by other UX people, where they share comments on the matured products for improvements (Barbaroux, 2014). Lastly, the fourth division is where one visual UX goes around the divisions to merge …show more content…
In a way, Simon Galbraith is shown to have slightly inherited his leadership skills as well as enhancing it while Neil Davidson’s leadership skills sways more to the made leader. Based on the Great Man theory, leaders are born and not made (Changing Minds, 2002). It is further elaborated that individuals are able to be born into the world possessing various traits that are not found in everyone else. Soon, stating that great leaders are born with certain traits that help them to rise and lead (University Alliance, 2016). With this theory, Simon Galbraith seemed to have inherited his father’s leadership trait as his father was a businessman and Simon watched his father run a building firm as he was growing up (Cambridge Network, 2014). Despite that, Simon can also be perceived as a made leader like Neil Davidson. According to behavioural theories, leaders are made by going through a process of teaching, learning and observing (Hyacinth, 2014). Having a father who was a businessman, Simon got the gist to how a business works from listening to him over dinner (Cambridge Network, 2014). Identically, Neil worked in a small software company near Guildford before co-founding Redgate (Davidson, 2012). Neil acquired his leadership trait by observing how his previous job’s supervisor handles the company and learned from him (Davidson, 2012). To conclude, studies held at the University of Illinois revealed