You'll get more done with TDD, BDD, than with PDD or DRTB.
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You'll get more done with TDD, BDD, than with PDD or DRTB.
When you advertise that you need to hire “multiple” Scrum Masters now to ramp up an org, that is a declaration of failure. I believe in Scrum— so much that ONE person with *Mastery* of Scrum (and Agile) can turn an org around. “Many” is a spending scheme.
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
When you advertise that you need to hire “multiple” Scrum Masters now to ramp up an org, that is a declaration of failure. I believe in Scrum— so much that ONE person with *Mastery* of Scrum (and Agile) can turn an org around. “Many” is a spending scheme.
Most software operations constitute a DDOS attack on your focused attention.
October 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Most software operations constitute a DDOS attack on your focused attention.
I'm not saying Jenius Bank is a scam, but I am saying you'll be charged interest from day one, they will have a series of "data problems" and it may be weeks before you get your loan disbursed.
October 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm not saying Jenius Bank is a scam, but I am saying you'll be charged interest from day one, they will have a series of "data problems" and it may be weeks before you get your loan disbursed.
Claude's Sonnet 4.5 is absolutely unusable. Wasted my entire day, then tells me I hit the max limit. By Anthropic, we're done.
September 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Claude's Sonnet 4.5 is absolutely unusable. Wasted my entire day, then tells me I hit the max limit. By Anthropic, we're done.
Everyone can see what's going on. They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable, not because what I said was wrong.
Whatever it may bring. I will live by my own policies.
I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace.
Whatever it may bring. I will live by my own policies.
I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace.
September 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Everyone can see what's going on. They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable, not because what I said was wrong.
Whatever it may bring. I will live by my own policies.
I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace.
Whatever it may bring. I will live by my own policies.
I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace.
The tendency to "talk bad news down" is evidence of a culture that is not used to Empiricism. It's a culture of telling convincing narratives, because rewards and punishments come from a judge evaluating stories, not from actual consequences.
September 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The tendency to "talk bad news down" is evidence of a culture that is not used to Empiricism. It's a culture of telling convincing narratives, because rewards and punishments come from a judge evaluating stories, not from actual consequences.
The galaxy.ai "AI sketch to image" feature is absolutely worthless. It requires you include a text description, and it works based only on that. It gives the most generic subject, devoid of any context. It could be a Google search guessing at your key word.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The galaxy.ai "AI sketch to image" feature is absolutely worthless. It requires you include a text description, and it works based only on that. It gives the most generic subject, devoid of any context. It could be a Google search guessing at your key word.
Those gen AIs that are supposed to work from your pic aren't great. Sometimes they make an amazing image, but they add wild elements I didn't ask for. I need an artist on call at all hours for $20 a month.
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Those gen AIs that are supposed to work from your pic aren't great. Sometimes they make an amazing image, but they add wild elements I didn't ask for. I need an artist on call at all hours for $20 a month.
Batching is bad. Inventory is bad. If you just accepted those as axioms and considered them in all decisions, your work-life at least, would greatly improve.
September 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Batching is bad. Inventory is bad. If you just accepted those as axioms and considered them in all decisions, your work-life at least, would greatly improve.
Success does not grow in the dirt swept under rugs.
September 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Success does not grow in the dirt swept under rugs.
When working with ChatGPT or Claude, I often picture Eric Idle’s castle guard in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
September 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
When working with ChatGPT or Claude, I often picture Eric Idle’s castle guard in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
“Doing Agile” or Scrum seems like a lot of work if we believe everything we knew yesterday is still true and we must integrate the new information only if it can be wedged into the cracks of the old beliefs. And we must continue doing all the things we did yesterday, plus the new things as well.
August 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“Doing Agile” or Scrum seems like a lot of work if we believe everything we knew yesterday is still true and we must integrate the new information only if it can be wedged into the cracks of the old beliefs. And we must continue doing all the things we did yesterday, plus the new things as well.
No one is multi-tasking. They might be interleaving. Which is doing multiple things poorly and multiplying queue costs.
August 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
No one is multi-tasking. They might be interleaving. Which is doing multiple things poorly and multiplying queue costs.
“While you may ignore economics, it won’t ignore you.”
— Don Reinertsen
— Don Reinertsen
August 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“While you may ignore economics, it won’t ignore you.”
— Don Reinertsen
— Don Reinertsen
Hot take. Contra what you hear from every person, everywhere, all the time— I claim the largest problem in Business is a *lack* of greed.
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Hot take. Contra what you hear from every person, everywhere, all the time— I claim the largest problem in Business is a *lack* of greed.
Actual imposters never feel imposter syndrome.
August 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Actual imposters never feel imposter syndrome.
Fearless freeing ourselves from any possible past shame or guilt is the mechanism of excellence. Deming really understood this. The urge to defend the past traps us in all the constraints and failures of yesterday.
August 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Fearless freeing ourselves from any possible past shame or guilt is the mechanism of excellence. Deming really understood this. The urge to defend the past traps us in all the constraints and failures of yesterday.
When someone says, "I don't believe 100% improvement is possible", what do you think their chances are of achieving it?
August 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When someone says, "I don't believe 100% improvement is possible", what do you think their chances are of achieving it?
Someone told me today point blank, that increasing a team’s throughout capacity by 100% is impossible.
August 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Someone told me today point blank, that increasing a team’s throughout capacity by 100% is impossible.
If your culture treats Theory Y workers like Theory X workers, they will become Theory X workers, with all the behaviors that come along. This is not a thing you want, if you do Theory Y work.
July 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If your culture treats Theory Y workers like Theory X workers, they will become Theory X workers, with all the behaviors that come along. This is not a thing you want, if you do Theory Y work.
"So what do you do?"
"Theta mortician"
"Come again?"
"Theta mortician"
"Come again?"
July 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"So what do you do?"
"Theta mortician"
"Come again?"
"Theta mortician"
"Come again?"
Leet code interviews are the surest way to hire zero experience developers.
July 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Leet code interviews are the surest way to hire zero experience developers.
“Competing timelines” is code for “we don’t have the courage to say what matters most.”
July 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Competing timelines” is code for “we don’t have the courage to say what matters most.”
In iOS 26, everything you want to do now takes more clicks. And everything is double spaced.
June 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In iOS 26, everything you want to do now takes more clicks. And everything is double spaced.