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I talked recently with one of my coworkers about software management. She pointed out that we should use common sense instead of management technologies or frameworks such as Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Iterative or Waterfall. She said: “we should do things normally, just based on common sense” Well, I disagree. Because: Common sense is not so
But Linus Torvalds wrote Linux all by himself, right? That’s not exactly true. Linus wrote the first Linux kernel. But he didn’t work all by himself even in the beginning. After he started, he asked the community for suggestions and ideas for the new features: Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing
Today a short story about “A Man in a Ballon”. Sad but often true. A Man in a Balloon A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a man below. He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend
If you were hit by a bus tomorrow… If you were hit by a bus tomorrow (knock on wood) would your project get stuck? I still remember when one I worked on did. Well, I wasn’t exactly hit by the bus, but from the project standpoint, it was close enough. We worked on an important
