In order to become better at selling “doing the right thing” to management, I think we need hard evidence. Therefore, I’m very curious what would happen if you put a really good researcher on digging through the version control system for your product. Combined with bug trackers, continuous integration systems, and other [...]
Great quote from Kent Beck at SDC2010. Multitasking doesn’t work, but it would be so nice if it did that we try anyway. That’s about the best summary of (human) multitasking I’ve heard. This picture is pretty good too, though.
You can’t lead a big company at a detailed level. You simply don’t have enough time to grasp all details. You are just human, and your brain cannot handle the complex lives of all people in your organization. But if you’re the CEO, you still have the responsibility for all of these people. “With great [...]
Reading Richard Dawkins’ book The Greatest Show on Earth, I got inspired by his description about genes. He talks about how genes are not the blueprints of the body, but rather a recipe for the body. In other words, the genes do not contain a complete (or even partial) description of the final result, but [...]