I’m pretty buried in side projects right now, but I did want to get a few things out. First, I found this bit from Joel Spolsky, excerpted from the book […]
Read MoreAgainst Systems – IV
I’ve been looking for a way to wrap this up, when I stumbled accross and article titled “Process as a Substitute for Competance” that seems to do it for me […]
Read More… I was wrong
A few weeks ago I put out a post on Elisabeth Henricksen’s 2002 presentation, “Why Are My Pants On Fire?”. My conclusion was that the sentiment was obvious, but people […]
Read MoreAgainst Systems: Interlude …
More Against Systems to come, but first, a couple of things … 1) Jon Kohl points out that we only exist because of little systems like circulation, muscular, the solar […]
Read MoreAgainst Systems – III
Did you know that honor codes that consist of a specific list can be gamed? For example, the US Air Force Academy Honor Code, at one time, was: “We shall […]
Read MoreThree days in Indy?
I will be in Indianapolis on Thursday, March 22nd, Presenting Rethinking Process Improvement at a meeting of the Indianapolis Quality Assurance Association (IQAA), with a one-day workshop on software requirements […]
Read MoreIntuition
James Bach is running a rapid software class over the web, and I am enjoying it. (You can take the course for $250 per session; read about it – here). […]
Read MoreGreat Writing
George Dinwiddie wrote this and it struck me as worth quoting… 5. In spite of a technical background that goes back to childhood, my sailboat has virtually no electronics. The […]
Read MoreStandards – II
George Dinwiddie has a great response to my previous post on standards. In his post, George says: Why do people want to choose a standard before they’ve tried something to […]
Read MoreStandards?
To paraphrase Tom DeMarco, I am all in favor of product standards. After all, Product standards are the reason that I can buy a Double-A battery from any manufacturer, plug […]
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