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Lean Principle “Eliminate Waste”

Today on one of my conference calls I observed very known situation from my past, and I remembered one example of the lean principle “Eliminate Waste”.
Building the Wrong Thing
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not … Continue reading

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An Interesting Presentation About Technical Debt

Today I take a look one interesting presentation about “What is Technical Debt?”. It’s very horrifying to see scissors in somebody’s chest, but it’s not  horrifying when IT guys crash a business for million dollars and life of many people … Continue reading

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Lean Principle “Never Fix Later!”

More than three years I was trying to transfer the jidoka approach from Toyota Production System into the software practices. Finally I find my translation, it’s very simple lean principle “Never Fix Later!”. Under the word “fix” I mean wide … Continue reading

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Gettings Things Done in Software Development

Three years ago I have read the book Getting Things Done of David Allen. The time was very interesting with the fact that at this moment I was developing a software for spinal cord surgery operations and I was trying … Continue reading

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Thought of the day by Desiderius Erasmus

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
Dutch author, philosopher, & scholar (1466 – 1536)

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Weinberg’s Law of Twins

For a long time I keep this consulting law offline and forgot to share it. But the events from the last month  remember me for this law and the fact that there is no change in one product or company … Continue reading

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Observations : The men who talk a lot couldn’t listen !

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Rules of Android Dev Club

First rule of Android dev club: You don’t talk about Intents.
Second rule of Android dev club: Don’t even think about solving complex problems with Intents.
Third rule of Android dev club: The global warming, the holocaust and the problem in the … Continue reading

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The Last Action Heroes On The Software Fields

There are software monkeys that believe they are super software gurus. You can recognize them by replicas like “I know the design patterns but I don’t know their names!”. Could you agree to make you surgical operation by a surgeon … Continue reading

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Dear managers don't confuse cows with software developers !

Today I observed a pity situation at work.  A senior developer with 10 years experience in Java Enterprise solution have been tried to be replaced with a trainee. The trainee had to prepare build script for a Java project, without … Continue reading

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