Archives for March 2009
Building the Management Team
I have read an article about Building the Management Team on Entrepreneur. It gives a nice outlay of the management team, but I don’t think that it really helps with the real hard stuff. How do you know who to get and how do you make sure that you got the right person?
I have […]
Throwing the Boss Out…
Jurgen Appelo has a post: Optimize Communication, Throw the Boss Out. It is great that Jurgen is writing about this topic, as I have been trying to tackle this for some time now. Here is what Jurgen asks
How do you align many teams to work towards a common goal?
My take is that you just have […]
Beyond Scrum and Lean
Both Ron Jeffries has commented on my Event vs Polling ideas and so has Travis Illig about having fun with status meetings.
They both use the same argument: We use Scrum standup meetings, we ask what we did, what they are going to do and what is stopping them. This is enough information.
I am all […]
Safe is Risky
These are the words of the original Purple Cow himself, it’s risky to be safe. I love it. It is really risky to play it safe!
So why don’t we take risks all the time?
Taking a risk means that we know that we have a chance of losing something. So we refrain from doing […]
Status meetings can be fun
Status meeting can be really boring. Actually they are normally a waste of time. I have been to many long status meetings where the manager drags everyone through everyone else’s tasks, task by excruciating task. As some people say: Status is for Reporting not Meeting.
On the other hand, as we are working as […]
Why do we ignore your arguments?
With the release of Isolator Version 5.3, we have added the ability to simulate external components based on the arguments passed to those components. We called this Conditional Behavior.
Our default is to ignore arguments, to fake a method without taking the arguments into consideration, neither the number of arguments (overloads) or the values […]
The journey from an Inventor to a CEO
When I started Typemock I was the Inventor, it was great fun, I did everything from developing to marketing to sales. I worked until 4:00 am learning and discovering and it was an amazing time.
Typemock started to grow and I had to bring in more people to help me, it started with support and then […]
200% Responsibility
When something is really important to us we must have at least 200% Responsibility. 100% responsibility is just not enough.
With my children for example, 100% responsibility is not enough, when I cross the road with them, both myself and my wife are on the look out. This is because when […]
The difference between GTD and Integrity
Getting Things Done (GTD) is an action management method created by David Allen. It is based on the principal that we have to get things out of mind by recording them, so that we can focus on the task at hand.
Following are the differences between GTD and Integrity based on GDT principals.
GDT Core Principals
Collect
In […]
Event-Driven vs Polling
We had a short discussion in the office about my post about the difference between Scrum and Integrity. The discussion was:
“I don’t understand, there is no difference, we do exactly the same things in Scrum and in Integrity. The Customer will know after the sprint what we managed to do.”
This is exactly […]
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