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…
Yesterday, Craig Brown asked Do we need Agile Business Analysts?. Two and a half years back when I joined ThoughtWorks, I would have said “No,…