In many companies the Business Analyst or the Project Manager “estimate” the project and bind developers on the project to that estimate. This is an…
This is what got me thinking about “What (the %*&$) are we really doing?”. Are gazillions of dollars being invested in IT, by organizations just…
Any system is inherently trust based but always tends towards being distrustful. Consider a prisoners’ dilemma example. (A) = A crook with a bag of…
I am doing what we call an Inception for a new project. The situation is not at all unusual. The Constraints An Organization with a…
For the past 8 months I have been working on omio. We got it from being just a mobile deals aggregator (for the UK) to…
I recently read In search of Shrödinger’s cat. It’s a wonderful introduction to quantum mechanics; The basic (and intriguing) problem of the elusive electron acting…
A bunch of business analysts have started this blog recently. I hope to contribute to it more regularly than I update this blog. I will…
Estimation, I think, has been one of the biggest problems of mankind. The Software development industry is no exception to this sad reality. We almost…
After this post, I have had a number of conversations with people about what I really meant by setting functional targets instead of story point…
After working in week-long iterations for 2 and a half years, going iterationless left me a little confused on my recent project. Of course when…