
Is Product Management different when your product is an API? How do the key people in the API value chain set the tone for product management of APIs?...
0 replies - 1454 views - 01/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

"The only thing that is constant is change." This famous quote originated from a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus. For many this statement still rings...
0 replies - 3673 views - 01/10/13 by Zac Gery in Articles

There’s a problem I have with suggestions for goals and purpose in standard management literature. Most writers and consultants assume that it’s a top-down...
0 replies - 1031 views - 01/10/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

…the only difference between experienced and inexperienced developers is that the experienced ones realize when they’re making mistakes.
Jeff Atwood,...
0 replies - 2336 views - 01/07/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Vivek Haldir’s recent post Quantum of Work
points out something obvious in retrospect: programming is
intrinsically fractured. It does little good to...
1 replies - 1040 views - 01/07/13 by John Cook in Articles

While lying in bed recovering from an injury a few years ago, I was stumbling around through the myriad of video podcasts I subscribe to and decided to take a...
0 replies - 2482 views - 01/05/13 by Chris Spagnuolo in Articles

0 replies - 1740 views - 01/03/13 by Abby Fichtner in Articles

Are software companies knowingly releasing buggy, defect-ridden software intentionally? In the words of Sarah Palin, "You betcha!" I'm not saying that they...
0 replies - 3200 views - 01/02/13 by Chris Spagnuolo in Articles

Important info from the leaders in collaboration - Atlassian, about how you can make your dev teams better.
Video Producer:...
0 replies - 5619 views - 01/01/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Last week, I posted a mind map that shows the benefits of the team effect. But what about the costs of a team that is not doing well? A team that...
0 replies - 1875 views - 12/28/12 by Esther Derby in Articles

I needed to fail with modern methods for requirement gathering in order to understand old methods for requirements gathering. Many software projects write...
0 replies - 1114 views - 12/26/12 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

Command and control isn’t just a mindset and a style of management (though it is both those things). What we don’t often talk about is the power that rests...
0 replies - 1272 views - 12/24/12 by Esther Derby in Articles

I vividly remember my first promotion into management. I was looking for a promotion to be a senior engineer. I asked for a promotion. I got a promotion into...
0 replies - 1331 views - 12/24/12 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Everybody is talking about technical debt today: developers, testers, consultants, managers - even executives.
But the more that people talk about...
0 replies - 2895 views - 12/18/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Sometimes it’s easy to fall into myopic ways of seeing the world.
Let’s talk about my favorite recent example, which is the so-called “cowboy...
6 replies - 5975 views - 12/17/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles