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Madmen In The Halls

Posted in development, work, tagged on 12 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I read Tom De Marco’s book Slack a few months ago, the first chapter titled “Madmen in the Halls” starts by suggesting that:
“The legacy of the nineties has been a dangerous corporate delusion: the idea that organizations are effective ony to the extent that all their workers are totally and eternally busy. Anyone who’s not [...]

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Let The Inmates Run The Asylum

Posted in agile, development, life, work, tagged on 11 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of my colleagues recently sent me a quote from this site which tickled me a bit.
“Those who do not have a clue are still debating about the process.
Those who know, just do it. (56)”
When reading through the rest of the quotes on the page I find the following one more interesting though:
“If you want [...]

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A little light reading

Posted in development, work, tagged , , , , , on 3 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve decided to switch the feed from my del.icio.us account to this blog off, if you still want to receive the feed you can subscribe to it here.
I’ve been following Karl Seguin’s foundations of programming series and have been impressed, it’s a good starting point I think and covers a lot of the technologies that [...]

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