A friend pointed me at this great piece of writing about pasta. The writer talks about how there really is no one, single thing you…
I was talking to a friend online. He told me about how difficult his project is, how subtle the politics are, how he has to…
Paul Graham posted the following on Twitter the other day: People get mad when AIs do or say politically incorrect things. What if it’s hard…
Favour learning over fixing. Most software projects encounter lots of “problems”. Bugs, production issues, team members not getting on, external dependencies failing – it can…
The Internet is fun. “How many users do we need to support?” is a question I have heard hundreds of times, and nearly always, the…
Running a meeting is an art form. I don’t know anyone who actively enjoys meetings, and I often find myself in meetings which feel like…
This conversation seems to keep coming up – “how do we give software engineers (in the widest sense – DevOps, QA, etc.) a career ladder…
A few days ago, I wrote about my experience delivering a large web project and compared it to the Hertz/Accenture law suit. A friend asked…
“Where are we, and what should we do” is a question I’ve had to answer on many consulting engagements. It’s often wrapped in very different…
I wrote earlier about Hertz suing Accenture over the failed web replatforming. Again – I have no knowledge other than what I read in the…