anti-pattern - No Kill Switch

5 months agoin architecture, anti-pattern, technical debt

Lava Flow Anti-pattern

What can we say about the characteristics of lava flow (no metaphors YET, I refer to RL lava)? it's practically impossible to stop/revert lava flow, it can either continue in the current "channel" or get routed in a new…

3 years agoin project management, anti-pattern

"Success" - Fifty Shades Darker ...

"Your theory contradicts the facts!" Roughly half a year ago I've written a blog post about "success". Not any particular success, but the success in general - my point was that sometimes the knowledge we gain…

3 years agoin Teamwork, anti-pattern

Rotting aura of a Bottleneck Superhero

Have you ever met a Bottleneck Superhero (BS)? I guess you can't tell as the term doesn't tell you anything. No surprise as I've just coined it for the sake of this blog post :> Yes, people who know me…

4 years agoin Teamwork, self-organization, anti-pattern

"A camel is a horse designed by a committee"

The way people tend to twist the idea of self-organization & bottom-up team empowerment is both scary & fascinating in the same time. But the amusing part fades away quite quickly when you realize all the inefficiency & impotency that…