Here's an idea that was suggested to me today; People who resist change will still change.  They just change slower than others. Why? The idea is that resistors are really trying to hold the status quo.  If your early adopters and the...
Topics: Managing Change

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See here for Martin Fowler's original post. Mr Fowler refelcts on tch debt and comes up with a four quadrant moel to eaborate his thinking. The two dimensions are prudence and intent. Which means is it based on good judgement, and did you mean to do..
Topics: Planning, Quality

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Dan Ward wrote a thesis on values and how they contribute to project success.  His thesis is that success is correlated with a set of values he tags with the acronym F.I.S.T: Fast, Inexpensive, Simple and Tiny. Dan works in defense where many...
Topics: culture, Requirements Management, values

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"What if 'near enough is good enough' really is true! What if it's not an attitude of laziness, but a discerning and intelligent response to a world of spin and over-production." ( podcast ) And an article to to with it; The good...
Topics: Quality

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Like, whatever dudes.  But if your OS really matters to you, try this for size: "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." More And while we are at it; Hitler gets...

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