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Efficiency
Something on perception
The perception is that the first SDLC / “lets-do-it-right” project has been released with the greates number of bugs and caused the heavy shower of P1 incidents ever recorded in recent years. The perception is that almost all new hires are coming from one personal affiliation key with less than expected minimum of transparency. The […]
Business of software
IT sometimes feels like it’s yet to embrace the concept of service. Far too often we hide ourselves behind the specifications, demand requirements. We’re in the business of creating solutions, but more importantly we’re in the service business. Throughout my career too many times I’ve seen the software being sold as a product comparable to […]
Nokia had that coming
Nokia has created this for themselves. For many years they have been developing the state of art software delivery and life-cycle management system just to realise that they’re unable to innovate quickly enough and switch from building best phones with best software on them to building ecosystems around their platform. The game has changed shortly […]
Management costs
For many years now I’ve been advocating for cutting costs of management as engaged and motivated personnel is woth so much more. I’m probably reaching the point of reversing my view on the matter as management is notoriously providing disruption for creative processes, you probably need to spend a little bit more on management, just […]
Management leap
When a senior manager with over 23 years of experience in IT, most of it in management, smashed against the business and the first day he realises he needs to find out about managing the agile process… The most amazing thing is that in order to attend a training in a completely new methodology on […]
Learning on the job
When a senior manager with over 23 years of experience in IT, most of it in management, smashed against the business and the first day he realises he needs to find out about managing the agile process… The most amazing thing is that in order to attend a training in a completely new methodology on […]
Productivity
Emigrating to another country widens your horizons in so many ways, also in a way that allowed me tomrealise that differences in standards of living, at least those measured by purchasing power of an average wage, don’t come from the fact that some areas have been and are poorer, neither from some vicious policies of […]
Why some will never be great
If there was just one reason why a company won’t ever be great it would definitely because risk-averseness elevated to the point at which moving an inch either towards a market revolution, or at least an innovation or even a slight improvement doesn’t pay and all mistakes would had to be repaid dearly.
IT management
I think best IT managers absolutely need achieve and maintain certain level of IT excellence and relevance. Against what I was convinced most of the years of my professional career, I now found evidence to contradict my previous conviction of best IT managers not being technologists. I guess it takes more than just one glarring […]
All task management solutions just suck
All task applications suck, because they arrange tasks by either priority or due date. That doesn’t help in managing any task list. I can either look at hundreds of high priority tasks or hundreds of high urgency tasks. None of the views tells me what’s are the dependencies between different tasks and what indeed is […]