My experience collected from my job and my projects like www.chessmasters.eu
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 be done at all.” –Peter Drucker
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 just because they are not well prepared to see the creeping disaster!
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 definition like fix the bug, make the code clean, refactor the code, redesign the code …
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)
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 without serious work in the past.
Weinberg’s Law of Twins : Most of the time, for …
software calls, communication
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 middle of a SIP call are not caused by the Undocking Manager.
!!! These rules make …
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 who doesn’t know the name of the body part which must be operated ? I …
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 a standard maven directory structure, with Ext GWT, Oracle , etc. The trainee doesn’t even …
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There is a joke for a woodchopper who axes woods with a blunt tool. When the woodchopper was asked why you didn’t whet your axe, he answered that he had a lot of work and had to cut a lof ot woods and no time to whet the tool. The last two months I observed …