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Teach to deal with change: any recipe?
Dealing with change. I believe this will be one of the most essential skills as our kids grow up, as the world is always changing and being able to accept the change, to deal with the change, to...
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Traffic lights and (the illusion of) control
A wise friend of mine asked me: “if a strict control is useful, why don’t we have traffic lights at every single crossroad?” I smiled and said: “do you want a coffee?” What’s your answer? PierG Filed...
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On delegation
There are the micromanagers. The ones who believe they can do better than anyone in their team and for this reason they use people in their teams as their arms …. just because they don’t have time...
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Cruise it home Michael
The title of this posts is probably meaningless to you (but if you know what it is, just let me know using the comments ) but reminds me of a good time. Yes sometimes good times come, not many usually,...
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Agile is hard
Let’s face it, working in an Agile fashion is hard. It requires paying attention to what you’re doing and the results of that. It requires thinking and making choices. It requires honoring the thoughts...
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Procrastination and people management
hiding by Lance Neilson, on Flickr – Some Rights Reserved Procrastination is evil .. almost always. When you think it’s probably the time in which procrastination is ok, double check: you are not that...
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The risk of wrong metrics
Today I read this tweet from @JerryWeinberg When managers don’t understand the work, they tend to reward the appearance of work (long hours, piles of paper, …) This reminds me of the risk of setting...
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10xFaster? Here is how-to!
Courtesy of gluemoon, Some Rights Reserved I remember when I did the keynote at XP2007 and someone told me: “amazing how fast you go in your company, I’m happy my users are not asking me to go that...
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WDD: a new development paradigm
We will talk about a new development technique called WDD or Worries Driven Development. You might know another couple of *DD techniques: TDD and DDD but they are by far less powerful than WDD. TDD or...
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No standard testing? Are you crazy?
IT people is often scared when I say that I don’t like the traditional testing phase in IT projects. I understand, it’s so relaxing to know that you have a bunch of people to blame when projects go the...
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On delegation
There are the micromanagers. The ones who believe they can do better than anyone in their team and for this reason they use people in their teams as their arms …. just because they don’t have time...
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WDD: a new development paradigm
We will talk about a new development technique called WDD or Worries Driven Development. You might know another couple of *DD techniques: TDD and DDD but they are by far less powerful than WDD. TDD or...
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