Category Archives: Project Management

Thought of the day by Unknown

Never confuse activity with progress.

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Thought of the day by Jimmy Nilsson

Too many chefs spoil the code.
Jimmy Nilsson

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Thought of the day by Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs talks about managing people

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Thought of the day by William Edwards Deming

The management of a company that makes furniture, doing well, took it into their heads to expand their line into pianos. Why not make pianos? They bought a Steinway piano, took it apart, made or bought parts, and put a … Continue reading

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Every Manager Deserves His Developers

I am rephrasing an old political proverb, but it’s true. If a manager ask you to release four days earlier, after he has promised you to postpone the release date with a week probably the chaos is so big in … Continue reading

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The Lean Thinking is The Life’s Thinking

You can’t be lean in your job, if you don’t have lean thinking in your life.
So next time when somebody says you that he is lean in his job take a look at his life!
 

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Snoozing “Spade Hacker” in Your Company

Today I was reading a news about “Spade Hacker”. At that moment I realized that every software company has at least one “spade hacker”. How many “spade hackers” do you have in your company ?

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Metaphor for Software Building :D

Can you imagine a skyscraper to be build without scaffolding ?
Now, why do we expect to create a serious software product without unit, integration, and acceptance tests ?
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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
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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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