I always hear the advice that we should tackle hard problems first.
It seems like pretty legitimate advice, and many of the reasons for saying so make sense,...
10 replies - 4070 views - 03/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Contrary to popular myth, Project Management is not a job, a profession or a career path. It is an illness, a disorder characterized by delusion, specifically...
0 replies - 1491 views - 02/24/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles
ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner
Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...
0 replies - 301 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized
Recently I’ve come to value experiments. I value them so much, it seems all I’m doing is experimenting.
That’s no coincidence: In an agile...
1 replies - 1560 views - 02/22/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
Let's face it, being a project manager is not for everyone. We place a truckload of expectations on a project manager and then use an extremely asymmetric...
0 replies - 2081 views - 02/22/13 by Tathagat Varma in Articles
How do you deal with a manager who believes that a software development team needs to go faster and should be pushed? I want to review some of the responses to...
0 replies - 1196 views - 02/22/13 by Benjamin Mitchell in Articles
Management love their metrics. The thinking goes something like this, "We need a number to measure how we’re doing. Numbers focus people and help us measure...
0 replies - 3215 views - 02/20/13 by Patrick Kua in Articles
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving.
I once worked...
0 replies - 966 views - 02/20/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that we should do...
0 replies - 2207 views - 02/17/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
I wish I could tell you I never had a bad manager day. I wish I could tell you I never screwed up. Nope, that would be a very tall tale.
Here’s a doozy. I...
0 replies - 2411 views - 02/17/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
”This
is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the
blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe...
0 replies - 3226 views - 02/16/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles
I have heard that knowledge workers need a special type of attention compared to blue collar jobs. On the other hand, I have been seen behavior among...
3 replies - 2299 views - 02/14/13 by Chris Shayan in Articles
Why it is bad to have a single point of failure in a product and what to do about it.
Every day we solve problems. Some people solve many problems, some...
0 replies - 2918 views - 02/13/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles
Baccarat is an interesting card game that you’ll find at many
casinos. The objective of the game is to correctly predict whether the
bank or player...
6 replies - 10547 views - 02/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
I hope that by now you see that you have any number of choices for your lifecycle if you are geographically distributed team and you are transitioning to...
0 replies - 1365 views - 02/10/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
