Views: Yours, Mine, and Ours

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Have you ever read something that bothered you, but couldn’t put your finger on exactly why? I found myself in that position after I read George Dinwiddie’s recent blog entry about Blocking.

Scott Ambler’s “blocking” doesn’t bother me. I don’t see that giving management the information they need, in the format they [...]

Problems vs Opportunities

Problems or Opportunities? Where should you focus your [...]

Says Who?

This system must have 99.9% availability.” Says who? “We’re in financial trouble, and there’s going to be a lay-off.” Says who? “Management won’t let us purchase the new tool like they said we could.” Says who? Any statement that doesn’t include “Who Said”, needs to have “Says who?” as a [...]

Point of View - From Another Point of View

I found more information on view points. These are referred to in NLP as Perceptual [...]

What's Your Point of View?

We recently pruned the fruit trees in the backyard. I did it by myself the previous time, and the results were, well, [...]

Managing in Mayberry: An examination of three distinct leadership styles

Although the main highway bypassed the town years ago, the namesake for the popular 1960s television series is still a bustling community, and a fair amount of traffic enters Mayberry’s downtown from the north on the US Highway 52 business spur every morning. In town for a week of consulting work, we were able to observe the recent road construction along that route and watched a trio of local citizens demonstrate their own unique management styles. Let’s take a look at how these characters traffic management closely parallels common styles of software project [...]