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By bfwebster on Apr 26, 2008 in Books, Development, Hiring, Main, Management, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 2 Comments
[Note: I originally wrote about this concept in my first edition of The Art of 'Ware and was going to include it in version 2.0 of that book. However, my review of the most recent translations of the oldest manuscripts of Suntzu pingfa has led me to re-interpret the maxims for that section. As a [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 16, 2008 in Books, Business, Development, Hiring, Main, Management, Marketing, Product development, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).] Two disappointed believers, Two people playing the game. Negotiations and love songs Are often mistaken for one and the same. – “Train in the Distance”, Paul Simon I used to have arguments with Carol Teasley, one of my mentors, regarding software [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 14, 2008 in Development, Hiring, Main, Management, Product development, Software engineering | 3 Comments
[This is an article that Ruby Raley and I co-authored and that was printed in the September 2006 issue of the Cutter IT Journal. Space was limited, so we had to be rather terse throughout. Ruby and I may well expand this to significantly greater length later, but for now, here's the original article as [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 11, 2008 in Hiring, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity | 91 Comments
[Updated (06/16/08): Here's a real-world project review memo, written several years ago, that described (among many other things) the Dead Sea effect.] [UPDATED (06/06/08): Ziff Davis has asked me to write a weekly "Surviving Complexity" column at their online Baseline website. My first column is here.] [Note: some of you have asked about the Cutter [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 3, 2008 in Art of 'Ware, Books, Financing, Hiring | 4 Comments
[Welcome to all the folks coming in from Reddit! You can download for free a complete (and earlier) draft copy of The Art of 'Ware (Version 2.0) [PDF] if you’re interested. Also, comments and criticisms are actively solicited for this and the other maxim-by-maxim postings.] ============================================= [From The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0) by Bruce [...]