Archives for June 2009
Great idea! I’ll write it down
Sometimes someone I meet will have a great idea and I will say so. "Good idea, I’ll write it down". I always add “It was (Albert) Einstein who said: The opposite of forgetting is writing”
One of our shareholders asked me once - what happens to all the notes that you write down?
Well sometimes […]
Being outstanding
In order to get outstanding results there is a need for outstanding actions.
I am really picky
I have been picky on wording lately. I know that I am picky, but words do have a profound effect on how we act.
I have talked in the past about Victim Talk vs Responsible talk, and we have fallen back to talking in Victim language.
We must …
What we need …
We should …
Although these word seem […]
Nothing is Broken
For the first time in our management integrity meeting - clearing, one of Typemock’s managers said: “Nothing is Broken”. The manager moved around in his chair feeling uncomfortable, and tried searching his mind for something that is not working, but couldn’t find anything.
I think that this is a great success, and it points to […]
Measuring Code Integrity
I have been pondering this for quite some time now. How do we measure the code integrity. Code Coverage doesn’t really do it, and the number of test or test density also doesn’t.
I proposed to go back to the commercial essence of unit testing and bug slaying. In a team that doesn’t unit test, […]
Innovation: Not “what if” but “how can”
Zane Safrit has a post about innovation: Innovation Key: Asking “what if”.
Although “what if” questions might work, I have found that they support innovation more than they create innovation. What I mean by this, is that you must already have the innovative idea in mind, to ask the “what if” question. “What if, we […]
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