Archive for February, 2008

Why is collaboration good for you

Posted in Architecture, Collaboration, Communication, Delivery on February 29th, 2008 4 Comments »

Lack of communication, insufficient engagement from stakeholders or some other way of people not working together have always dominated various charts on causes of projects failures. The bigger the project, the more problems you get. Funny then that we sometimes make ourselves busy trying to be clever about architecture frameworks and other formal mechanisms, forgetting […]

Social systems dynamics: Leading Systems

Posted in Architecture, People, Reading on February 8th, 2008 No Comments »

This book review is a part of the series on architects’ soft skills.
Let’s say, the way how you do things at the moment is not that great and you have this idea about how better it could be. Only if you did more business architecture/agile delivery/automated testing or other clever idea you have. You know […]

Dealing With People You Can’t Stand

Posted in Architecture, Communication, People, Psychology, Reading on February 1st, 2008 No Comments »

This book review is a part of the series on architects’ soft skills.

The title of this book is self explanatory. If you work for a large organisation, you probably don’t have too much choice over who you you work with and sometimes you have to rub along with people you would rather strangle.
Brinkman and Kirschner, […]