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Summary of the Manuscript
Here is a small summary of what I think the book will be about: This book will be about leadership and management of knowledge-based work. More particularly, it was about software development as a...
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Predicting Complexity Leads to Guilt and Guilt Lead to Apathy
Predicting Complexity Leads to Guilt When you work as a project manager you are expected to be in control. To control and review things, you must be able to predict things. To be able to predict things...
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Noise in Complex Situations
Noise is something within a specific context that interferes with the sending of signals or messages. When you’re communicating with someone and another person interferes by talking at the same time,...
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The Benefits of Fast Iterations
The foundation of Agile methodologies is to work in iterations. This has many benefits: Benefit # 1: Code that is not used by stakeholders is an inventory cost. If you had a store selling clothes in...
View ArticleAccept Complexity and be Free of Guilt
“You are in the undiscovered land now, no one expects you to know what behind the next rock!” Realize that we’re all seeking simple truth where there aren’t any. By accepting that you work in a...
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Accept that you can’t predict the BEST solution.
“The ones that demand that you as a project manager shall know what behind next rock will probably appreciate a horoscope more than reality.” If things keep changing, the best solution will not be the...
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Organizing work is a combination of doing the right thing, in the right way in an optimal way. This is hard and what makes it even harder is that the right thing and the right way are constantly...
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Craftmanship, Industrialization and Knowledge-Based Work
Up until the nineteenth century, most people were engaged in agriculture; others learned a craft like carpentry. They were organized in small communities and worked together from sowing seeds to...
View ArticleWhat ITIL and McDonalds has in common!
Processes and methodologies are great for some kinds of work. If you have a repeatable process that consistently yields a high quality product, you can emulate McDonalds’ approach and hire teens to be...
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