People over Process: a Universal Law
Despite the progress we made in software engineering in the last two decades, some people still believe that processes can be more import...
Creativity as the Root of Software Development
There is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. At least 60 different definitions of creativity can be found i...
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...
Call for Votes: Top 100 Software Engineering Blogs!
For months I have been trying to find out what the most popular blogs are for software engineers (and their managers). Sure, we all know ...
5 Easy Questions for Robert L. Glass
In some earlier posts I published interviews with Steve McConnell, Johanna Rothman, Alistair Cockburn and Scott Berkun. This time I will ...
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...
A Theory of Everything for Software Development
If there's one thing that all software development experts agree on, it's that the other experts are not always right. There are ...
5 Easy Questions for Steve McConnell
In some earlier posts I published interviews with Johanna Rothman, Alistair Cockburn and Scott Berkun. After noticing that he is the #1 S...
Burn Your Burn-down Charts
In many articles on Scrum, the traditional burn-down chart is still depicted as the preferred method for displaying progress in a sprint ...
Book Review: User Stories Applied
The concept of writing user stories, as a way of documenting requirements, was introduced and popularized with Extreme Programming, and t...
On Books and Laxatives
I am a book lover with a little problem. Every time I'm in a bookstore, I find myself looking for a restroom within a span of just a ...
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