The Complex Manifesto for Software Development
The world is more complex than people like it to be. I regularly see blog posts of software experts providing us with values, principles,...
Embrace Diversity, Erase Uniformity
Note: this article was posted earlier as a guest post on John Hunter's Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. Five years ago, when ...
Simple vs. Complicated vs. Complex vs. Chaotic
When you’re managing software development projects, you need to know the difference between complex and complicated. Not knowing th...
From Complexity Theory to Practical Management
One day I realized that software projects are complex adaptive systems, just like brains, beehives, biological cells, birthday parties, a...
Eat Chaos, Poop Order
Chaos and order are the theme of my life. I consume one and produce the other. As a student I was very active as a writer, illustrator, o...
Adaptation vs. Anticipation
In his recent talk on architecture vs. agile development, Philippe Kruchten presented a simple but compelling message: Software Architect...
The Virtue of Junk Code
Brett Schuchert wrote a fine article yesterday on the subject of refactoring, or cleaning up your code. And though I agree with most of h...
Not Repeatable Results but Repeatable Success
I don't believe in repeatable results. I only believe in repeatable success. Repeatable Results vs. Repeatable ProcessesIn his recent...
Why Developers Are Never Really Happy
Why are developers never completely happy with the tools they are using? Why are users never fully content with the software we build for...
What’s Driving Our Process Improvements
The first couple of years after getting my driver’s license, I was a really bad driver. Taking a seat behind the wheel (if I could find...
Complex versus Complicated
I just read the article The Other Side of Complexity, by Chuck Allison. In this article Allison claims that complexity in software can be...
(R)evolutionary Changes
On codebetter.com Peter van Ooijen has published a blog entry on the evolutionary mechanisms one can find in the selection of tools and t...
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