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Quote of the Day

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain The causes for risks clearly lie in our incomplete knowledge of the subject matter, thus if a... Read more →

Must Read Book

I received this book to review a few weeks ago. I'm working on the review, but before that is complete anyone in the Agile Project Management world needs to read this. There was a time when I didn't like the... Read more →

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Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the... Read more →

Agile Means ...

I was at a conference for government contractors and the software systems we use to manage those programs. In the federal government agile is moving forward. Greater Accountability and Faster Delivery Through Modular Contracting. During one of the session there... Read more →

Quote of the Day

There is one other thing we should discuss, and that is the difference between management and leadership. Management is figuring out how to get the job done. Leadership is deciding what needs to be done and inspiring the team to... Read more →

Calling BS on "All Models Are Wrong"

There is a popular myth that George Box's quote All Models are wrong, some models are useful is a license to stop thinking intelligently about models and how they are used for nearly everything we do. Models are simply aids... Read more →

Quote of the Day

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - Jackson Brown Read more →

A Cleaver Way To Tell The Source of the Problem

My 2007 Honda Civic SI started making a noise in the engine compartment a few weeks ago. It was related to the engine RPM. This car is the Civic body, but with a 200HP, twin-cam engine with 9,000 RPM red... Read more →

It's Not Chaos It's Football

There is a popular myth - mostly by those Agile Management 3.0 thought leaders who don't play or even know much about team sports involving balls, grass - about "emergent" behavior. The myth is that the "rules" of the game... Read more →