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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

• The People-People Impedance Mismatch

  I can picture a scene in the early nineties... Programmer:  "Look at this cool app, it is written 'Object Oriented'" Manager: "I see. But it doesn't seem to do much" Programmer: "Yes, but... it has objects, polymorphism, Read More... Posted 26 October 2008 21:08 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: People, Data Access