Today I’m on a mood for a rant. Be warned! 🙂 I constantly get gob-smacked (to borrow a term from a friend) about the lack of simple understanding of reality. Let me explain. One particularly common symptom in management is that they tend to “believe” (that’s the word) that they can affect what happens in …
Benjamin works in a consulting company where there was no dress-code unless the client would have a dress-code. Since most consultants were testers and coders (and you know how we dress) the clients understood not to demand a formal dress code. Then Benjamin’s company changed his boss. The new boss required and insisted on everyone …
My good friend Bas Vodde just published a review of the panflet Scrumban. I see that his review is yet another manifestation of what I titled “the world is not ready“. I don’t think that his ideas are wrong, on the contrary, just that his ideas show that a lot of ground is still to …
Through this post on InfoQ I learned that Scott Ambler is writing about productivity in Agile and how to measure it. He comes up with an interesting concept, that of acceleration. Anyone familiar with statistical process control knows that a process does not have “acceleration” by itself. A process is either under statistic process control …
