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Posted onAugust 10, 2020Uncategorized

The fundamental attribution error – or why you’re an asshole, and I’m rational

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…

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Posted onJuly 23, 2020July 24, 2020Uncategorized

Artificial (emotional) intelligence.

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…

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Posted onFebruary 3, 2020Uncategorized

On managing development teams.

Favour learning over fixing. Most software projects encounter lots of “problems”. Bugs, production issues, team members not getting on, external dependencies failing – it can…

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Posted onDecember 10, 2019December 12, 2019Uncategorized

Web application load and performance optimization – hunting the bottleneck.

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…

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Posted onOctober 30, 2019Uncategorized

Running a good meeting.

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…

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Posted onOctober 29, 2019Uncategorized

Software engineering career ladders

This conversation seems to keep coming up – “how do we give software engineers (in the widest sense – DevOps, QA, etc.) a career ladder…

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Posted onAugust 19, 2019Uncategorized

Slices, layers, tiers, components – oh my!

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…

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Posted onJune 20, 2019August 19, 2019Uncategorized

Stories and numbers: OKRs

“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…

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Posted onApril 28, 2019April 26, 2019Uncategorized

Accenture and Hertz – slices versus layers

I wrote earlier about Hertz suing Accenture over the failed web replatforming. Again – I have no knowledge other than what I read in the…

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Posted onApril 26, 2019Uncategorized

Thoughts on the Hertz – Accenture lawsuit

Let’s start with a disclaimer – I have no knowledge of this situation other than what I’ve read on the news. This post is conjecture…

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