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It started from a tweet from @andreachiou Anyone out there who feels that @jerryweinberg ‘s books and career had a material positive impact on their own career? (Yeah, rhetorical 🙂 — Andrea Chiou (@andreachiou) February 26, 2013 I went down the memory lane, to the…
Story Points have been one of the favorite method of estimation in the Agile circles (even if there is a group that ditched them altogether in favor of micro-sizing or continuous flow). But somehow they are a concept that is difficult to grasp to some,…
This seemingly inocent question on twitter got me thinking a lot. ‘Conventional Wisdom’ and ‘Common Sense’ are often quoted to reject a novel idea, because we all know they cannot be wrong, right?
This blog has been recently the target of a blog-spam attack. I’m shutting down the comments for all posts until further notice. UPDATE: Futher notice 🙂 Blog-spam attack contained, I’m reopening the comments again.
As I said somewhere else in this site, I’m passionate when it comes to programming, seeing it as a craft to be perfected. It is no surprise, then, that I became a confessed Agilist. Something happened today that made me think about what I think…
Johanna Rothman, in in her product development blog talks about when a spec should freeze. She basically said “specs never freeze, people communicate about what they want all the time”. What caught my eye was one commenter that said “There is always a point at…
Again, another quote from Slack: “Paradoxically, the fear of breaking your neck (translation in corporate terms: losing your job) does not make changes impossible. It’s a much more insidious kind of fear that interferes with change: The fear of mockery. If you want to make…
That is a subtitle in chapter 13 of Tom DeMarco´s excellent book Slack, dedicated to the Culture of Fear in our organizations.These are the characteristics of an organization with the Culture of Fear that are listed in the book: It is not safe to say…
That phrase started what may be one of the most life-changing fragments I ever read. It is from Robert Heinlein book “Time Enough for Love“.
I have been in a very unique position, seeing crunches that worked and crunches that didn’t on the same team (same people, same project). Those that didn’t work, started with the management saying (nearly at the end of the plan) “we are late, crunch time”.…