10 most popular video reports from 404fest 2013

As you know, we here every year in our Samara hold the Festival 404 , where different people come and share experiences. Reports are recorded on video and laid out for free on your youtube channel . We offer a selection of the most popular video reports for the past year.

Last year I did this post . Almost 30,000 people read it. I can modestly suggest that this post should also be interesting and useful.
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1. Creative meeting with Jovan Savovich
Jovan Savovich tells, Maxim Spiridonov asks



The host of the analytical program “Runetology” Maxim Spirodonov will conduct live interviews with the founder of the well-known collective blogs Dirty and Leprozorium.

2. What is the Power Distance in your company?
Sergey Kotyrev, UMI, St. Petersburg



High PD or authoritarian regime. Low PD or anarchy. Middle path or balancing on the rope.

3. How to make a metro map
Ilya Birman, Artyom Gorbunov Design Bureau, Chelyabinsk



Approach, where to start, why it is difficult, Lenin Library, diagram and text, go, price movement, balance, river, monorail, Kakhovskaya, hole over Barrikadnaya, green macaroni, thickness of lines, Krasnogvardeyskaya, transplants of the same name, construction, Butov compression, Latin , Dobryninskaya, swing, list, war with the net, red macaroni, size, Lublin, Riga, more Lenin Library, another size, Kiev, radii of curvature, designation Ring, ears, deadline.

4. Visualization Kung Fu
Tanya Misyutina, Data Laboratory, Moscow



In the Data Lab, we come up with unusual and extraordinarily effective ways of presenting information and with their help solve the urgent problems of runners, marketers, transportation analysts, honest voters and other guys. This will be the story.

5. City projects
Ilya (zyalt) Varlamov, City Projects, Moscow



I will talk about comfortable and uncomfortable cities and what residents should do to change the situation.

6. Millions for a suck interface
Denis Novozhilov, NetKraker, Moscow



Many of us have met with the interfaces of Oracle, SAP, Amdocs, Siebel and other monsters - "food companies."

Sincere surprise. How to use it!? Poor call center employees, engineers, accountants.

When you accidentally find out that the implementation of this system and the license were totally worth the numbers with seven (!) Zeros, the hair begins to move not only on the head.

“No, well, at least with six zeros! Our studio will make an order of magnitude cheaper and everything will gasp as it is convenient! ”

Lets do. Of course gasp. And after some time they will return to the grocery company.

We tear covers from the riddle of the number on seven zeros.

7. Organize Yourself: The Practice of Implementing Getting Things Done in My Life
Ruslan Fazliev, Ecwid, Ulyanovsk



My one year with Getting Things Done: Ecwid has grown three times, has become a top e-commerce solution on Facebook. Our flag is on Lenin Peak, my authorship articles are in Forbes.com and TheNextWeb. Business meetings in Boston, San Diego, Warsaw, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Luxembourg, Austin, Phoenix and Zurich. I will tell you how the GTD system helped the dude from Ulyanovsk to manage all this in one year - and how you can make it a part of your life.

• Stress-free productivity: how GTD differs from time management seminars
• Components of the GTD process: how do I manage to do everything
• Taste Delay: Best Procrastination - Organized Procrastination
• Paper, pen and software: how to organize your own GTD
• GTD and Pomodoro: concentration does not happen much
• GTD and Mindmaps: what to do if you don’t know what to do
• GTD and team: organized yourself - organize others

8. Employee Motivation
Dmitry Agarunov, Gameland, Moscow



The ideal wage system, the rules of selection and probation.

1. How to understand the true motivation of the employee?
2. When to fire?
3. Simple rules on how to select employees.
4. Simple rules of probation.
5. The ideal wage system.

9. What do you really need to learn suckers?
Olga Pavlova, KB "Dog @ Pavlova", St. Petersburg



Employee after high school. Or after the decree. Or after a long work the devil knows who the devil knows where. And if at all from the house manager ran away. How should we prepare our kamikaze, who will do it and where on this path are the sudden underwater rakes?

The report is built on mostly fun, but sometimes tragic experience of involving young and old recruits in their IT projects, who are hungry for re-qualification, professional growth and rabid attendants.

Bonus discuss what actually suck these suckers. And how to wean them from the tasty.

10. Is web studio a business too?
Alexander Bogdanov, AGIMA, Moscow



In Russia, about ten thousand web studios. Some are born and die, most simply exist and only a dozen or two studios really earn. How to get into this ten?

• Never deviate from strategy;
• People are everything! Invest in relationships;
• Want to become a market leader, create it;
• Distribute the power, and then you burst;
• Money is the fuel of progress;

Announcement 404fest 2014
This year the Festival 404 will be held on October 4-5 in the Holiday Inn Samara. Come, participate, you will like it!