The PMI people don’t seem to stop trying to “guess” what Agile is. Guessing is the right term, because anyone with more than a few hours experience in Agile software development can see their cluelessness from afar! Take this article by Lynda Bourne DMP, PMP (no, I’m not making those TLA’s up, she uses them). …
Part of being a cool company is that you respect your customers. This is not a show of respect by Apple. Seriously, this is just used car salesman tactics. Apple, shape up!
While discussing with a colleague we started talking about the costs related to not fixing a bug immediately (yes, this does mean that you have a way to immediately figure out if you introduced a bug). The reason for fixing bugs immediately is not only the cost of content switching later on when you have …
The people that convinced us to never mix design with requirements may have wrecked more software projects and destroyed more value in the software industry than anyone else! Just think what happens when you separate requirements from design: You don’t validate assumptions to more than a very superficial level (the “I don’t care about the …
In a post called “Apple’s Design Process Through a Keyhole”, the blog over at Adaptive Path mentions one technique used at Apple when designing product. The basic idea is that in Apple, designers come up with 10 possible designs for a new feature (and I bet more than 10 for a new product). Then diligently …
Disruptive technologies don’t always come with revolutionary new technology or feature-packed packages. And this is no different with the iPhone/Nokia debate going on today after Nokia failed to impress with the announcement of the N96 multimedia phone. The fact is that Nokia is missing the bigger point and the proverbial bus. One year after the …
