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Negative Thinking and MTTF

I recently ran into an opinion piece by Dr. Atul Gawande titled " The power of negative thinking ". You can find a copy of the piece at the New York Times. It made me reflect again on negative thinking and its role in software development. *Note you will

Agile Deep Dive at MIT Sponsored by GBC/ACM

Sitting in a weekend long Agile Deep Dive seminar sponsored by the Greater Boston Chapter of ACM and each of the attendees. I say attendees in that it was not free. I'm especially looking forward to Ron Jeffries presentations on XP so that I can finally

Perceptions on ScrumMaster Training after 1 Day

I have been pleasantly surprised with the first day of ScrumMaster training. The insights that are simply lost in translation from author to book to reader is very large. This has closed that gap or as might be referred to as clearing an impediment. We

Consulting Constraint, Consulting Activism, Judicial Constraint and Judicial Activism- unlikely bedfellows?

*WARNING- work in process. Multiple revisions and reposts to come. Software development always involves a client and thus always involves consulting to that client. How much and how active that consultation creates a spectrum of consulting constraint

Your longest running team project

*Note- I actually started this post November 1, 2006 and it has sat in my Draft folder for some time. I had a friend ping me about some screwed up work item fields in some projects and this reignited my need to push this post out. I spend a lot of time