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Tracking Conversations
Steve Rowe has a management tip: When doing 1:1’s with your team (you are doing these regularly, right?), take notes to keep track of the conversations from week to week. I currently use a 5-tab notebook with one tab for … Continue reading
Decision-Making Protocol
One of my acquaintances is fond of saying, “Employees view managers as monsters, at the worst, and idiots, at the best.” The point being that, even good managers have to overcome mistrust about their intentions and judgment before employees accept … Continue reading
Are We Safer By Abolishing Rules?
Jurgen Appelo writes: In a Dutch article titled “Traffic is safer without rules” traffic expert Hans Monderman explained that the flow of traffic at an intersection can increase, while at the same time casualty rates decrease, when all traffic lights … Continue reading
What Good Bosses Should Believe
Bob Sutton is hard at work on a new book and has put together a set of key beliefs that good bosses have. My thoughts on some of them: 1) I have a flawed and incomplete understanding of what it … Continue reading
The Quality Imperative
Alan Skorks has an interesting post on different ways to look at software development: (emphasis in the original) the majority of companies that build any kind of software are ‘software as a destination’ companies. [...] On the other hand, most … Continue reading
The Case For Better Management
Stephen Forte makes what he thinks is a case against having “rock-star” developers in a team. You can read the post, but, in short, there was a programmer “John” on his team who picked coding arguments with the rest of … Continue reading
The Bigger Complexity Lies Outside Technology
From the Domain-Driven Design Site: [A] great deal of effort has gone into the design of networks, databases, and other technical dimension of software. Books have been written about how to solve these problems. Developers have cultivated their skills. Yet … Continue reading
Delegation is Teaching
Jurgen Appelo publishes a list of delegation checklist items from Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby Is the risk factor of delegating this work adequately addressed? [...] Do the people have the skills to do this particular kind of work? Do … Continue reading
Avoiding Software Car Wrecks
I.M. Wright’s post on risk management is worth reading: Software engineers do this all the time. They come up with a development schedule, unexpected issues come up, and they end up being late. Instead of informing their managers of the … Continue reading
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Time, Budget, Scope
I understand what Glen Alleman is trying to do here when he insists that you can pick all three of time, budget and scope, but he totally misses the point: Put these estimates into a schedule, sequence the work. See … Continue reading
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