Pros and cons of both product-oriented and project-oriented development are well known, but some companies try to mix both paradigms, apparently to get the best of both worlds. How does it look alike in practice? Does it make sense? What are the drawbacks? Let's start with the basics. Project-upon-product: how...
"Your theory contradicts the facts!" Roughly half a year ago I've written a blog post [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/fifty-shades-of-success/] about "success". Not any particular success, but the success in general - my point was that sometimes the knowledge we gain in the process, empowerment or ownership we build up...
> "Errare humanum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum." (eng. To err is human, but to persist in error (out of pride) is diabolical.) Seneca Now & then I re-visit my own idea / statement / opinion to find out that I totally disagree with it today. Actually I don't find it a problem,...
A lot has change since I've gone pro in software development, one could say at least one era has passed since then, but some things never change - one of them is Enterprises loving Fuckin' Big Projects (FBP), dinosaurs of XX/XXI century. In defiance to the common sense ... Enterprises...
Quite the contrary to the common belief, team's productivity is NOT just a simple sum of team member's potentials. Many want to believe that because it so easily translates into mandays & fits the capacity VS estimates matching game. Though it never really works this way. Morale, team's inner "chemistry", synergy...
I've just passed PMI-ACP [http://www.pmi.org/Certification/New-PMI-Agile-Certification.aspx] exam - which is the main requirement to obtain the PMI-ACP certification. For those who didn't check the link: ACP stands for Agile Certified Practicioner. What?! Certifications like PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL are by definition quite formal - the knowledge...
