Clients, Budgets, and The Credit Card Phenomenon
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There are many big reasons why you want stakeholders involved in a project including: input, feedback, direction, and buy off. However, all projects have a single thing in common - budget.
When project owners get left in the dark (or sometimes keep a blind eye on purpose) they run the serious risk falling trap […]
The Illusion Of Technically Competent Managers
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The role of technical manager is inherently flawed by nature.
It is insanely rare that you can find someone who is both technically competent and has the people management skills to accomplish this job - so already you are working against the odds. Jurgen’s recent opinion that most software developers are utterly unqualified for such […]
It’s Software - And I Helped!
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Software is not Shake & Bake…
Projects are continually plagued with poor choices due to something I have just now coined - Shake and Bake Syndrome.
Every single individual involved in a project sincerely cares about the best possible outcome; however as a result of caring - we pollute the purity of designs and implementations by adding […]
Quit Sweeping Known Uncertainity Under The Rug
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This is a continuation of the post - Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous
As the saying goes, the first step in fighting addiction is admitting you have a problem. Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to rationalize away our problems. Problems which then create ticking time bombs in fragile card houses.
One […]
Forced To Write English Syntax Code - Simplicity or Burden?
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This is a guest post by Jurgen Appelo. Jurgen is the CIO of the #1 fastest growing technology company in the Netherlands.
Did you know that only two countries, the United States and Canada, participate in what the Americans call the "World Series"? It’s as stupid as it is hilarious. The average American doesn’t know that […]
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