von godehardg | Sep 10, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone,…” – Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-Founder and Philanthropist Dear all unnoticed by most of us, AI may have taken a major step...
von godehardg | Sep 3, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as „lines produced“ but as „lines spent.“ – Edsger Dijkstra – Dutch Mathematician and Computer Scientist Dear all Despite the vacation season, there has recently been some...
von godehardg | Aug 27, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
„Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.“ – Misquote attributed to Mark Twain Dear all, I was recently asked to keynote at two corporate Agile gatherings. Obviously, I feel very honored. But what new do I tell a gathering of Scrum...
von godehardg | Aug 19, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“The issue is that anytime you put a list of ideas on a document entitled ‘roadmap,’ no matter how many disclaimers you put on it, people across the company will interpret the items as a commitment.” — Marty Cagan Dear all In the few decades that I have worked...
von godehardg | Aug 11, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.” – Thomas Schranz, Co-Founder & CEO at Blossom Dear all, Last week I wrote about fighting application bloat and scope creep in (especially) IT applications. In doing so, I suggested it to...
von godehardg | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“There is no such thing as scope creep, only scope gallop.” – Cornelius Fichtner, Project Management Trainer & Author Dear all Last week we kicked off yet another project to re-base an IT application where maintenance and development costs keep increasing,...