April 2007 - Posts
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For a while I've been thinking of doing a series on some my favorite management inspiration figures - my heroes of management, if you will. Well this first post isn't about management, rather its about my other passion - biking. Last week I got...
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Prentice Hall were kind enough to send me a copy of Design for Trustworthy Computing , after it caught my eye at the SEPG conference. It looked liked it was packed with quality material that I'd never seen aggregated in to a software book - techniques...
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No really! This article from Crosstalk in 1996 is a positive gold mine. Scroll down to the section of the Two Person Team. The two-person (2P) team implements the adage "Two heads are better than one." When this concept was first implemented...
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In Thinking for Living , Thomas H. Davenport argues that managers of knowledge workers should be paid a premium for assuming the position as manager and letting go of the relatively safety and security of their individual contributor knowledge worker...
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I played an April Fool prank on my team yesterday with the assistance of our HelpDesk and Mark Grotte, one of my management team. We scheduled an outage for our kanban white board to take place across the morning standup meeting. Our Global HelpDesk sent...
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I thought I'd point out a couple of new articles that are worthy of your time. Alistair Cockburn argues in Crosstalk that software engineering has aspects in common with manufacturing and why it is important that we learn from them. Meanwhile, over...
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