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• A Shortage of Technical Managers

  I was reminded this week of the common misconception that good developers are only interested in hardcore engineering and not in the delivery of business value. The additional assertion was made that in ‘the current climate’ that there is depressed demand Read More... Posted 18 September 2009 14:42 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, People, Career

• Back off posse, we’re ninja’s!

  There is a classic American Western movie cliché where the sheriff, in an attempt to catch an outlaw, calls for the organization of a ‘ posse ’.  By western movie definition, a posse seems to be a band of people that have just stumbled out of the Read More... Posted 29 July 2009 14:24 by simon.munro | 1 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, Agile, People, TDD

• Creativity and Job Security

  Late last year as the financial crisis bulldozed its way through the market and created a wave of job insecurity that is both persistent and growing daily from the frequent reports of the recession and job cuts.  A blasé attitude towards job security Read More... Posted 05 February 2009 10:29 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Career

• I Suck at Mushroom Management

  With all the gravity of putting things out onto the Internet and never being able to take them back, I have made my proclamation that I have a management weakness - an almost complete inability to be able to mushroom manage with any degree on competence Read More... Posted 20 October 2008 17:08 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, Agile

• Body Armor for Developers

  Developers see estimation skills as something that the more manager types need to know.  The up-all-night-hacking-code attitude seems to be at odds with something like estimating - which sounds too much like administration anyway.  Developers Read More... Posted 26 August 2008 21:40 by simon.munro | 2 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Estimating, Project Management