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For many years now, I’ve had the joy (?!?) of being involved in argument and debate about sharing in the enterprise. Sharing what? In the old days it used to be time on mainframes, as departments or even firms clubbed together to do things they couldn’t otherwise afford to do. Then it became space in … Continue reading “Musing about making shared-service models work”
Yesterday I ended my post with a quotation from Wikipedia on development hell, and that’s where I want to start today. There are many reasons why film (and software) projects go wrong, and they all have to do with the script. The script is central. When producers and directors are looking to attract talent into … Continue reading “On filmmaking and software development: Part 2”
My two previous posts, looking at the reasons for deviance between management and engineer views of projects, attracted a number of comments, primarily in two camps. One camp spoke of Management-in-Denial, going into the reasons and contexts why an enterprise would behave that way, travelling into shareholder-versus-customer expectations along the way. A second camp looked … Continue reading “Continuing with musing on project management and communication”
I must have missed it the first time around, and only saw it via Boing Boing (thanks, Cory!). Reuters reported last Friday that “Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan“. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the story. Read it for yourself. Someone’s finally figured out that letting … Continue reading “Search and ye shall find”
Following a recent post I’d written on Agile, David Tebbutt (who’s on my blogroll and an occasional commenter) raised the following point: One thing bothers me and that is that huge numbers of people, evangelists if you like, have enthusiasms for things like ’social computing.’ Their enthusiasm isn’t for particular products, more for improving the … Continue reading “Musing about the value of social software”