Coexist
Winter of mixed drinks
We the common
Palomine
I just could not resist buying this classic.
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A Tale of Two Projects
It was best of times, it was the worst of times…
There were two projects – Project “A” was a greenfield project, with highly motivated, highly skilled Software Architects & Developers who either had a lot of experience with Agile Scrum or were very open to learning about it.
The Product Owner was fully engaged and worked diligently to create a well defined set of User Stories that could be easily broken down into Story Points. As this was a greenfield project, we were not distracted by support issues. In addition, the project had, albeit after some convincing, good management support.
Whereas Project “B” was the Spaghetti Monster project that was the result of years of mismanagement, misunderstandings with patches patched on top of patches, poor source control and deployment processes and poor engagement between the software development team and the client.
To make it even more interesting, Project “B” was a core, mission critical system with a large user base (who were not happy or no longer engaged), and suffered frequent outages, slow performance and provided a poor user experience.
Woowww have a look at the core values of Virgin Active. It wasn’t up until a few weeks ago that I actually noticed them. They were written on the wall near the entrance on one of their locations, a writting in white on a large red wall, so I am not sure how I could have missed them.
Every company should have something simular to this. It explanes why you’d want to get involved with a company
p.s. I am pretty sure Ikea has simular values.
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Be ready to use a dictionary. It is not easy reading, but the information is very valuable.
Probably have to read it twice to get a good grip on the topic.
The more we know, the less seems possible.
Filling in the details usually increases the complexity and rules out options.
Contradictory to and a variation on the well known saying:
The more we know the less we understand
