“The second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs” Fred Brooks, 1975 & 1995Brooks
was talking about software designers, architects, but I...
2 replies - 6239 views - 04/01/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles
There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the
employee side and the management side. I hope you stick around for both
sides. You can...
1 replies - 2434 views - 04/01/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
My wife grew up spending a half of every summer living in Algonquin Park. My father-in-law was a bush pilot for the Ontario Ministry of Natural...
0 replies - 2813 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards...
0 replies - 1848 views - 03/28/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles
For years I’ve assumed that when Agile principles succeeded at a team level they would naturally spread to other teams in the organisation until...
0 replies - 1027 views - 03/27/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to...
4 replies - 3160 views - 03/26/13 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles
Take any opportunity to be pro-active
Q. If we gave you carte blanche to work on anything for six months, what would you work on?
There is no right answer to...
0 replies - 696 views - 03/26/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
An office might not seem like an unhealthy working environment when compared to factories and car garages. Working in an office demands sitting for long...
0 replies - 1793 views - 03/25/13 by David Shaw in Articles
It was the nth time that a supplier has failed us. If we analyze it logically, there were two options: Get mad or roll with the punches.
Since we’re not...
0 replies - 1362 views - 03/25/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
The proclamation by Marissa Mayer last month, informing Yahoo employees that working from home is no longer an option, really seemed to bring an important...
0 replies - 2299 views - 03/20/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles
Back When We Compiled to Machine Code and Links Took 45 Minutes...Back in the day, I ran a small spreadsheet company, Athena Design
that took on the big...
0 replies - 3109 views - 03/20/13 by David Pollak in Articles
After reading Lean Startup (which you should all read) I’ve come across too many great ideas and I really wanted to begin applying those to another idea...
0 replies - 2128 views - 03/19/13 by Javier Manzano in Articles
Some folks are using agile to invent. They are trying to figure out the right products to build for markets that don’t even know what they want. They are...
0 replies - 2420 views - 03/18/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles
I remember sitting in a project meeting back
when I worked for a Big Company. The project manager, Ted, announced the
top three priorities. When I...
2 replies - 1994 views - 03/18/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
In my last post “What’s next for Agile?”, I talked about alignment between the development team and the business, from the customer focus...
0 replies - 846 views - 03/16/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
