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Better Process, Better People
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. Officially author unknown, but I heard it from my mother, more than once. Reading Better People, Better Process may make it seem like I'm one of those touchy-feely "people over process" types. I confess I have...
Command and Control Agile
Words convey meaning. They're how we take the stuff deep in our brains and share it with others. They also self reinforce. David Levy says "not only do our attitudes and perceptions affect our use of language, but our use of language in turn influences our attitudes...
Beating Brooks’ Law
Joe Little does a marvelous job recruiting speakers for the Agile-Carolinas meetings. This month was no exception. Israel Gat from BMC Software discussed "Leading the Disruption". This presentation focused on releases 2.3 and 2.4 of their distributed system management...
Better People, Better Process
The current mantra for software development hinges around "better, faster, cheaper." To support these efforts, companies attempt to improve their development process. While helpful, improving the current process has two negative side effects: diminishing returns. The...
Data and Doing Things
Johanna recently blogged about Making Milestones Visible. Jerry added that milestones not only need to be visible, they have to be actionable. The example they used was having a vehicle go 100,000 miles. Data To Johanna it was a milestone she missed because her...
Changing Words to Change Reality
Words interest me. They don't exist in the real world. They're the names, and descriptions we give to the items and events we notice in our environment. A classic on how well this works is Blind Men and the Elephant. It's a short read, I'll wait here. Bad Matters...