Hal, I am trying to figure out exactly what you mean by the machine metaphor. I do not totally buy the concept that a project is simply a special case of...
I have a theory that a fundamental question in most organizations is: How do people know what to do when they show up for work in the morning? There are two...
... Just to add to my previous message, I think that within the parameters of the book itself, it may be more valuable with some practices that suppliment the...
My interpretation of the chasm is that you can't rush through any of the segment. Each segment provides experience and resource crucial to addressing the next...
I'm not sure I'm ready to write persuasively (or even lucidly) about this. Here's a short commentary (for now). If you've been following the series of...
The postings Hal refers to below are at http://weblog.halmacomber.com/ . If you have an interest in agile project management, Hal's writings and references...
Tom writes, Might the theory of project management be the theory of a learning project team? Oh, if it were just that simple. The PMI appears to be agnostic...
Thanks for the plug Tom :-) Actually, this presentation is a now somewhat out-of-date outline for my first book which will be published next year. The draft...
Please find me at OOPSLA. I'd love to review your manuscript. Re: posting books on the net. I've found tremendous value for my writing by encouraging a...
Tomorrow I give an invited talk at OOPSLA about thinking with metaphors in programming. My research and experience tells me you can't escape metaphorical...
I've found one of the best uses of metaphors is for "showing" something to someone who doesn't have one's own experience but shares the experience of the...
Or it may have been me, referring to work by Alan Cooper (and others) from the world of UI Design where metaphor is a widely debunked concept. The problem with...
Hi Kent, I'll do some serious writing about the machine metaphor in my weblog sometime. In the meantime, I'm not talking about "mind is computer". I'm...
This is what I was talking about, too. There is a hideous book called "Software for your Head" that represents exactly the opposite of my viewpoints. It...
Arien, Thanks for this reference, I found the article very interesting. I think that I have been confusing options analysis with decision tree analysis, and...
Yesterday at a panel session on refactoring at OOOPSLA, there was a question from the audience to this effect: "I have 5000 people in my software development...
... I wouldn't completely throw out options *thinking*, since the underlying insight of how to structure projects to create something analogous to financial ...
Policy not talent is what limits organizations. All organizations regardless of how large they are have people who are better at one kind of work than others...
This really matches my interests and prejudices, so it must be great: lean systems, information generation and flow, option pricing, design synthesis, ... ...
At an OOPSLA workshop, I met Kitty Hung, who recently joined the London Metropolitan Police. She was hired to help sort out their software contracting...
Mary, "MP" == Mary Poppendieck wrote: MP> Does anyone have advice for handling difficult contract situations, MP> especially ones where public entities are...
