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Certifiable – II

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 3 Comments

Another post, this one to the agile-management list … Ron Jeffries Wrote:A leadership certification, one would imagine, would perforce be far less specific and far more general, but just as […]

Certifiable?

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Skill Building, Strategy / 1 Comment

The Agile Project Leadership Network is working on a certificate program in Agile Leadership. This has been discussed a bit on the Agile Leadership Yahoo group. I just emailed a […]

Interesting Presentation

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / 2 Comments

Elisabeth Hendrickson just put up a reminder of her 2002 talk “Why Are My Pants On Fire?” – It is a quick but interesting read – here. Please, go read […]

Decline and Fall – III

January 4, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Holistic/Systems Thinking / No Comments

I like the way my colleague, Sean, summed it up yesterday. To paraphrase what he said: Asking “Ok, but how will the decline and fall help me test this web-based […]

Requirements Methodology

January 3, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Requirements / No Comments

If you listen to James Bach enough, you will eventually hear the idea that every practitioner should be able to articulate his strategy and methodology – preferably quickly – and […]

Connecting Gibbons and Systems Thinking

January 3, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Holistic/Systems Thinking, Strategy / No Comments

I was rather hoping that someone would respond to yesterdays post with: Yes, Matt, that’s all well and good, but you still didn’t answer Harry’s Question – what does the […]

A few of my favorite things – IV

January 2, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Favorite Things, Holistic/Systems Thinking, Strategy / 1 Comment

As a thought experiment, I would like to describe nation at a point in time. I’ll let you figure out the nation and time … -> The country was once, […]

Run Corporate IT like a software company

January 2, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Process / No Comments

I’m still on vacation, but this struck my eye as worth sharing … … corporate IT has to find ways to deliver the most important business capabilities as quickly as […]

Off to vacate

December 29, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 1 Comment

I’ll be in vacation for the next few days, but in the mean time, Paul Carvalho has an interesting post comparing skilled (exploratory) testing to fencing. I thought it was […]

Interview?

December 28, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Tools / 1 Comment

Software Quality Engineering recently sent me a bunch of inteview questions for a StickToolLook e-newsletter. Writing a reply was hard, as I wanted to provide real information that was worth […]