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Estimation Does Matter
20 April 09 11:17 AM | Anonymous | 3 comment(s)

Recently, Mark over on the Agile Project Management Yahoo discussion list posted this little remark. “A feature will take *exactly* the same amount of time whether the estimates are "good" or "bad"! “I swear I'm going to print that on a 10 foot banner and hang it over my desk...

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Late Expectations
21 August 07 09:00 AM | Anonymous | 3 comment(s)

I don't like being late. I have never gotten into the habit of arriving well after the party starts (under the euphemism of being "fashionable", like you couldn't get your clothes on) nor sending birthday cards after the fact (though I do admit the belated birthday cards are often funnier...

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Lights... Camera... Arrrgg!
28 April 07 07:52 PM | Anonymous | with no comments

There seems to be a third thing certain in life besides death and taxes. That thing seems to be the fact that the moment some moron uses the product or software that I have been working on, they are going to do something stupid. My brilliant work of pristine intellectual purity which functions just the...

Filed under: humor, increments, defects, planning