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Efficiency
Quality
Back in 1982, The Atlantic published an article by Wilson and Kelling called “Broken Windows”, in which the authors promoted the idea that small problems, unless fixed promptly, would lead to more problems, and the problems themselves growing larger into full criminal acts. Later, Dave Hunt and Andy Thomas, in their book The Pragmatic Programmer, […]
Continous improvement
One of the limiting factors of enterprise software development is pure business driven change request process, where behind every, even most benign change there’s always a requirement for a clear business driver. Practicality of having only business stakeholders in a process of driving changes in software limits scope of changes to quick fixes or erratic, […]
Two categories of problems
I’ve found that there are only two categories of problems I’ve encountered in life. First type are problems related to lack of (something) and the other are related to abundance of (something). I still remember clearly how it was when I was short on work, money even when I wasn’t short of ideas what to […]
Observational science
I believe in real science based on experiments, not theories. This is called observational science. That means a science where theories are only worth as much as the experiments they’re based on this. This is less esoteric version of science for the masses if you like, used typically where confounding factors must be known and […]
Three things to improve speed of delivery
Again – just three of them but personally selected from many years of my experience. Not a hundred per cent devotee to a ship early, ship frequntly but I think that’s getting close. I think they’re the 3 most important things any software house should be doing to improve speed of delivery of a software […]
Startup weekend
Interesting journey to Startup Weekend Szczecin ended just now. We have definitely made our mark and have stolen some of the attention. Lots of feedback and some extremaly important one. I figured that I don’t need that much feedback as I need solutions. I’m generally not interested in feedback alone (also known as: what people […]
Wrong place or a wrong time
No one wants to be in a loosing team (even in a winning company). Here are my top symptoms of being in a wrong place or a wrong time: The company is loosing cash with no realistic outlook on recovery The company is loosing clients (either internal or external) via (internal or external) competition: a) […]
It’s not political. It’s economics.
“There is a level of despair out there. We have got to have a government that speaks to the whole community, not just the layer at the top.” – T.May, Home Secretary, UK. The recent wave of criminality in London is in fact just a reaction to despair It’s only the British white of Theresa […]
Power of assumptions
Never assume anything is not actually as smart as you might have thought… Asked yourself if you knew if major you’ve chosen at university is what you want to specialise? Did you know it back then or did you merely made an educated guess? How many times you’ve taken a job knowing it’s right for […]
Command and Control
As much as most of the respected management sources criticise industrial-era approach by “command and control” I start to like the environment more and more. It seems to attract developers, who have actually retired, just counting years to the official retirement age. Such developers are creating pleasurable work environment as a general mix of experience […]