Many years ago some people came up with a brilliant idea: “what if, we could turn abundant lead (Pb on the table of elements) into scarce gold?”. A brilliant idea to be sure, but as we know now, impossible. What made Alchemy grow and thrive as a science, was that people at that time did …
Whenever you hear someone talk about Agile being better than X or X being better than Y don’t assume they are right. Ask for proof. For many years our knowledge and society at large have advanced through the tried and often questioned, but always upheld view that it is not sufficient to merely claim something …
Sometime ago I did a talk about Scaling Software Development at Agile Eastern Europe in Ukraine. The slides are up in my slideshare account, but now you can see the video of the talk that Agile EE made available. In this talk I try to describe what “scaling” means and come to the conclusion that …
During the Scan-Agile ’09 conference there was a lot of discussion about why Agile works and if a specific flavor of it would be better than other flavors (you know, the Scrum vs Kanban fight). Despite those surface issues, there was a deeper debate going on. Why does Agile work? And in what context should …
I’m sure that you’ve heard many things during your life that made you think: “Boy, that guy/gal doesn’t get the basics of (put your favorite subject here)”. Well, there’s a reason for that. People make assumptions and claims that are false because they have a faulty model in their head. They simply don’t know better! …
Believing in some far-fetched (or indeed any) explanation without having any proof is dangerous. It is dangerous in the case of the flat-earthers and it is dangerous for project leaders and team members. Whenever a theory emerges why something works (or doesn’t) in your project/company, it is your duty to either prove it right or …
In the interest of science (studying epidemics dynamics) I’m posting this “spread the happy flu” post. I got the happy flu from Henrik Mårtensson.
