Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Eric Smith – We are Principled: 6th Edition: “There are many reasons to practice the demo but one of the biggest benefit is catching missed requirements. I couldn’t list the number of times one team member would demonstrate a feature only to realize they had left something out or made a simple mistake, usually before…

Shanley Kane – How the Productivity Myth is Killing Your Startup: “You have to admire the insipid, dogged and naive devotion people have to believing they are going to get this huge of list of things done. […] All 10 projects are delivered late and half-assed. This is most sad for project number 4, which…

Alex Pukinskis – 3 Ways to Inspect and Adapt at Scale: “We’re all familiar with top-down change initiatives. Senior leadership gets together, analyzes the problem, designs a solution, and announces it. Everyone else is left to react. This approach leads to problems for two main reasons. First, people don’t know when change is going to…

A wonderful rant by David Gewirtz on ZDNet – My infuriatingly unsuccessful quest for a good media asset management tool: “There is a category called „Digital Asset Management“ out there as well. These are enterprise-level products, often Web-based. You can begin to tell they’ll be trouble because there’s no price for the product on the…

You’re my colleague, or my boss. I wish you would do something, and we both can agree that it’s a good thing to do. What does it take you to actually start doing it? Well, 1) you need to know about it, 2) you need to be able to do it, 3) you have to…

Scott Adams – The Management-free Organization: “Our decision-making so far seems to follow a rational model that goes like this: 1. We discuss the question (by email or Skype). 2. Everyone gives an opinion or adds information. 3. The smartest choice becomes obvious to all. 4. The end. That decision-making model might not work in…