Take the agility test

Michael Hugos has come up with an agility test for the IT executive.
Take it. Get your clients and colleagues to take it. Compare notes. Learnt anything new ?

Pairing and productivity

Just been through a blog reading trail starting from Kathy Sierra’s “The Asymptiotic Twitter Curve” to Jason Fried’s “How to shut up and get to work” to Joel Sposky’s “The value of alone time” which all talks about individual productivity. The gist of those blogs is that we feel compelled to repetitively keep [...]

Technical Debt Part 2

Following PierG’s comments, I had further discussions with my colleagues and realised that he and I may be speaking about slightly different things. Technical debt can be generated by either of these
1. Technical debt generated from having poor safeguards such as bad testing, insufficient code reviews, no refactoring etc is bad (See Thomas Looy’s post [...]