Specialization is Good
I think specialization is good, and cross-functional teams are not. Here’s why… Suppose you are the publisher of a magazine a...
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...
People Don’t Read
Am I the only one keeping Amazon.com alive? Or do people buy books without actually reading them? These last few weeks I received some de...
What is a Project?
For many years people have been trying to compare projects, created by different organizations, in different situations. Comparisons are ...
Project Management Parade 2008
Today I gave a presentation about the things we can learn from complexity theory, to a number of project managers, on a Dutch seminar cal...
Death by Blogging
I’m trying to reach a point where I seriously run the risk of death by blogging. I’m not that far yet, so there’s still...
The Timing of Requirements
Monitoring the customer's wish list (or the backlog of requirements) is an important part of a project manager's job. Agile metho...
Don’t Believe Anyone
I'm a disbeliever. I tend not to believe people's claims about what they think is the truth. I am Skepticism Incarnated. After ea...
Skip the Estimates
In our company we use a large and complicated spreadsheet for estimating project size. We have designed the formulas to include frontend ...
We Underestimate Nonlinearity, Not Effort
People have linear minds. We expect and imagine all things to be straight. I live many of my weekends in Brussels (Belgium). It has one o...
Quality Review Process
Has anyone noticed how my blog entries are getting longer and longer? I started out writing 350 words per day on average in the first wee...
Change is the Only Constant
Environmental change is a hot topic nowadays. And though the possible causes for global warming are still being disputed – I’m quite ...
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