Archive for November, 2008

Cross-Functional Teams
Monday, November 17th, 2008

A buzz word within the Agile camp is ”cross-functional teams”. For some reason though, there seems to be quite some confusion about what it really means. More precisely, it seems that some people argue for that members of a cross-functional teams should be generalists rather than specialists, that everyone should be able to do every [...]

Join a Proud Minority, Read Books
Monday, November 10th, 2008

A few days ago, I a girl caught my attention on the tram. Now, a lot of girls catch my attention, but this time it wasn’t actually the girl herself but her shoulder bag which caught my attention. It happened to have a print which I thought was pretty funny. Join a proud minority [...]

People Who Are Smarter Than I Am
Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I have realized that some people are smarter than I am. It is a painful realization but I just can’t ignore the evidence any longer. Allow me to explain. I often get inspiration to write posts from reading books or blogs by really smart people. Thus, I often refer to people who are smarter than me. [...]