Project Shrink: Read It & Beat It
In my relentless efforts to dominate the software development blogosphere, I am trying to find out how to beat all competitors. As you ca...
Why Should I Follow Your Rules? (The Subsidiarity Principle)
In a previous post (I Follow My Rules, You Follow Yours) I wrote about allowing people to follow different practices, which can be a good...
Blog Post #200
These are joyous times indeed! Immediately after celebrating the new year, and listing my most popular articles of 2008, I now arrive at ...
Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009
My first night in 2009 was a bad one. After a pleasant new year's eve with a couple of friends, I slept for only 5 hours. That's ...
Performance Appraisals (The Easiest Way to Fail)
In our organization we managers use the December month to produce the performance appraisals of our employees. Or maybe I should say the ...
5 Easy Questions for Myself
On this blog I have published 15 interviews with leading software development authors & thinkers, including Ron Jeffries, ...
I Follow My Rules, You Follow Yours
It's ok when I follow my own rules, and when you follow yours. As long as we agree on the value of each other's output. In softwa...
Home on Christmas Day
Sitting in some hotel room Some place far away Saw a shop light screaming Christmas Bought your present there today I'll be home on C...
5 Easy Questions for Ron Jeffries
On this blog I have published interviews with Steve McConnell, Johanna Rothman, Alistair Cockburn, Scott Berkun, Mary Poppendieck, Grady ...
What Motivates (Some of) Us
A number of weeks ago I asked readers to tell me what motivates them. The most original/inspiring contribution was awarded with $100 wort...
5 Easy Questions for Mike Cohn
On this blog I have published interviews with Steve McConnell, Johanna Rothman, Alistair Cockburn, Scott Berkun, Mary Poppendieck, Grady ...
Real Agile Teams Can Flock
People often try to solve problems by introducing rules in an organization, in the form of "When situation X occurs again, you must ...
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