My Clients, My Friends, My Dates.
tarting out with a new client is a lot like modern dating. There are the Instagram posts (usually the first few boardroom meetings with PowerPoint decks) that make you look hip, smart, and on the cutting edge. Then there’s the boozy dinner, and if that works, someone wil...
OpEx and CapEx in Agile
A few simple recommendations for managing OpEx and CapEx in Agile.
Telephone Interviewing Tips
I do so many telephone interviews. I wish most candidates knew these basics.
Check, Checkpoint
I was on a short project recently that had to move quickly, so early on, we decided to whiteboard out our activities for the day at 9am, then checkpoint on our progress for ten minutes at noon, then again 5 pm. Guess what happened? When noon and 5 rolled around each day, one group or […]
The Mobile Army
Nietzsche (1844-1900) said ‘truth is a mobile army of metaphors’. He said a lot of other things, of course, not worth mentioning here. But it’s that one quote that came most often to mind during my visit to the Agile Alliance 2013 in Nashville recently. From session to session, lunch conversation to bar stool banter, the […]
The New Pseudo Science
The Viennese philosopher Karl Popper (1902-1994) is remembered for calling Marx and Freud to the carpet for what he called ‘pseudo science’, criticizing their theories for avoiding ‘falsification’ or testing that would render them incorrect. Popper felt ‘real science’, on the other hand, was always open to falsification. For example, Einstein was open to being […]
Catch Someone
