A few weeks ago, I republished an article originally published in Better Software: Convincing Management That Context Switching Is a Bad Idea on the AYE site. I’d received no feedback about the article when it was published, so I wanted to generate some discussion about my ideas. I did generate a little discussion. Don Gray […]
I’m a speaker at the 2006 Kennedy Information Recruiting Conference. I’ll be adapting my cultural fit talk, this time focusing on some of the specific issues health care recruiters face. I’ve been talking to some of these folks and the issues are remarkably similar to technical people–especially when they’re recruiting technical people into health care
I was reading Michael Specht’s links of Mar 24, 2006 and found this gem: One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers.
A colleague emailed me this question today: “I’m looking for Agile and extreme programming jobs, and I keep seeing stuff like this. Are there really people searching for jobs described as having extreme workloads?” Here’s what he saw: “incumbent regularly works under deadlines and is capable of handling extreme workloads” Ok, I have several reactions
I love hearing good things about my book. I heard two great things last week. First, the book was reviewed by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in the Software Engineering Notes Volume 31, Issue 2. Here’s the review. You need to be a member of ACM/SIGSOFT or have access to the digital library to
Matisse has an interesting post, Software is like Building Construction. He talks about iterative design and the interdependencies of people with deliverables as being common to construction and software. In my opinion, he’s not all wrong, but he’s not all right. I agree that there are plenty of design-build firms who wait until the
If you read this blog via an aggregator, you may not notice the changes. But I have succesfully updated my blogroll and made all the monthly archive pages appear. If you think I’ve missed your blog in the blogroll, please send me an email. Until I update the whole site, I’m done with blog housekeeping
Via Keith’s A Few Good Posts by Ed Gibbs, I read Better Feedback Loops With One on Ones. Sounds like one-on-ones are helping Ed and his team. Last week, I had dinner with a manager (also using Scrum) who has had great results with one-on-ones. It’s always nice to hear positive news about a
I’m a big fan of continuous integration. For me, that means that as developers implement small pieces, they check in the changes, verify the changes with a local build and smoke test, promote the code to the mainline, check again, and they’re done. I’ve been having a long discussion with one of my clients about
Merlin’s been doing a series of posts about emptying your inbox. I decided he was right.Here’s the philosphical statement in Inbox Zero: Articles of faith that helped me see a new possibility: Admitting you simply don’t have the time to participate in a 10-times-daily email exchange with someone is difficult to admit. But what’s the