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Weekend Reading – Meeting Madness: Save Your Time (and Sanity)!
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'” – Dave Barry, American Journalist Dear all, vacation time is over – everybody is back at work. Actually,...
Weekend Reading – AI on Every Desk and in Every Home
“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...
Weekend Reading – Can Software Developer Productivity be Measured?
“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 brouhaha about an article...
Weekend Reading – Game Over, Scrum?
"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 Masters, POs,...
Weekend Reading – Roadmaps are not Plans
“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...
Weekend Reading – The Benefits of Product-Oriented IT (Redux)
“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...