Posted in Communication, Delivery, People on August 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I am still working through lean book & blog shelf, trying to sieve sense from non-sense (or more practical from less practical ideas). One of the pages I recently came across recentlyt is this talk on the Role of Leadership in Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, one of the original proponents of the lean IT […]
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 […]
Posted in Architecture, Communication, People, Psychology, Reading on February 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
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, […]