How Do Ants Know What to Do?
A colleague of mine forwarded a link to this fine presentation by Deborah Gordon on ant colonies. In this presentation she clearly shows ...
Software Development Book List
I'm trying to read the most importants books on the subject of software development (and particulary the managing part of it). Resear...
Death March
I just finished reading Death March (Second Edition), by Edward Yourdon. I liked the fact that it referred to Dynamical Systems Theory (w...
Standing Up for 15 Minutes: Why?
Today I wrote an article on the subject of 15-minute stand-up meetings… Introduction The ultimate management sin is to waste people...
Complex Resource Management
How do you manage 8 people working on 20 projects, more or less at the same time? This is one of the toughest challenges me and my collea...
The Craft of Maintenance
I just finished reading Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. Glass. It is a good book. I particularly liked Glass...
A Complex Presentation
Yesterday I presented my thoughts about Complex Systems and their relationship to Software Engineering to a classroom full of collegues a...
To Translate or Not to Translate
I have finished translating my latest article (which is about Code Ownership). I translated it from Dutch to English, which, as I explain...
Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month
This week I have been reading the famous book by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., called The Mythical Man-Month (1995 Anniversary Edition). I fou...
The Best Free Online Translator
I hate translating texts. I have written some articles in Dutch and now I want them translated to English, but oh what I pain that is. Th...
It Takes Complexity to Manage Complexity
I think I had some sort of a breakthrough idea today! It happened just over an hour ago. I had given a presentation about the Prince2 pro...
This Week’s Progress
This week I finished a new article (in Dutch) which deals with code ownership, which I prefer to call artifact assignment. The article is...
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