Do you know anyone who will be in the office tomorrow ? Who was in the office yesterday ? I wrote "anyone who went to work" initially, and went back to correct that. Just because you're in the office doesn't mean you're doing any work. In particular, if you're in the office on a day where just about everyone else is away on vacation, and watching...

Do you know anyone who will be in the office tomorrow ? Who was in the office yesterday ? I wrote "anyone who went to work" initially, and went back to correct that. Just because you're in the office doesn't mean you're doing any work. In particular, if you're in the office on a day where just about everyone else is away on vacation, and watching...

I'm no good at making lists. A lot of interesting content I come across is organized in lists; I'm thinking most recently Keith's comments on Lean in a Nutshell, but also (more or less at random) posts by Johanna on Phone Screens, Esther on Management Skills, etc. My mind just doesn't seem to work that way, so I'm usually envious when I see...

Like Keith, I keep a largish folder of bookmarks bearing the title "To Blog". I don't know why I do this, since none of the addresses in there has ever been the basis for a blog entry of mine. The folder contains items that struck me as interesting in the peculiar way that gives rise to the tought "Oh, I might blog about this." In theory, it is...

Like Keith, I keep a largish folder of bookmarks bearing the title "To Blog". I don't know why I do this, since none of the addresses in there has ever been the basis for a blog entry of mine. The folder contains items that struck me as interesting in the peculiar way that gives rise to the tought "Oh, I might blog about this." In theory, it is...

You'll remember the start of the story. I blogged about it roughly one month into the process. One month earlier, I had decided to take advantage of a local law passed the previous year, concerning the equivalence between academic studies and professional experience. Here's how it worked out for me. The first thing you're supposed to do is select...

You'll remember the start of the story. I blogged about it roughly one month into the process. One month earlier, I had decided to take advantage of a local law passed the previous year, concerning the equivalence between academic studies and professional experience. Here's how it worked out for me. The first thing you're supposed to do is select...

Currently, I think of a promise as a speech act on my part, which creates in someone else an expectation that I will behave in some specific ways in the future. A commitment is more of an internal promise: it is an act whereby my own expectation arises that I will behave in some specific manner in the future. Breaking a promise is failing to...

Currently, I think of a promise as a speech act on my part, which creates in someone else an expectation that I will behave in some specific ways in the future. A commitment is more of an internal promise: it is an act whereby my own expectation arises that I will behave in some specific manner in the future. Breaking a promise is failing to...

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -- (Actually not) Goethe

Blockhead is a classic game in which players take turn piling wooden block atop each other until the whole edifice topples; the last player to have placed a block loses. Did you know about the software development version ? Players take turn grafting new code fragments inside a function that's already grown too long, until the program suffers...

Blockhead is a classic game in which players take turn piling wooden block atop each other until the whole edifice topples; the last player to have placed a block loses. Did you know about the software development version ? Players take turn grafting new code fragments inside a function that's already grown too long, until the program suffers...

Just arrived home from a business trip to London which gave me the happy opportunity to attend half of XPDay 3 (minus the after-conference debriefing at the pub, owing to an early train ride back). I had the pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with many great people (you know who you are), including an outstanding selection of agile bloggers -...

Just arrived home from a business trip to London which gave me the happy opportunity to attend half of XPDay 3 (minus the after-conference debriefing at the pub, owing to an early train ride back). I had the pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with many great people (you know who you are), including an outstanding selection of agile bloggers -...

Projects in many industries go out of control. The problems that afflict projects are not peculiar to any one industry,...