Principles

Estimates are Promises - A Better Metaphor

June 26, 2017

[Off-Topic] Talent Is Highly Overrated: Humanizing Einstein and Killing Gods

June 8, 2017

[Small Bites/Off-Topic] "People over Processes" — what are "People"?

November 21, 2014

[Off-Topic] Agile: the Truth Behind the Method

September 28, 2014

[Off-Topic] DO NOT Do What You ("THINK") You Love

September 13, 2014

[Off-Topic] #noEstimates Debunked

October 7, 2013

[Off-Topic] Estimates Are Promises. Promises Must Be Kept.

August 23, 2013

Predictably Irrational

July 12, 2013

Introduction to Agility

June 28, 2013

Processes, Methodologies, and the Human Brain

June 21, 2013

What Does It Mean to Be a Manager?

June 7, 2013

Processes and Methodologies Won't Help You

May 24, 2013

[Off-Topic] People: Rational Animals? The id and ego in marketing

May 14, 2013

[Translation] Estimation — The Best We Can Do

April 5, 2013

[Off-Topic] The World Today Is Very Good! Happy 2013!

January 2, 2013

[Off-Topic] A Vent III, Reflecting on 2007

December 30, 2012

Ruby is Beautiful? What is Beauty?

September 2, 2012

[Off-Topic] The Myth of the "Legacy"

August 15, 2012

[Off-Topic] Great Artists Steal

May 13, 2012

[Off-Topic] New Year's Message — Philosophy

December 31, 2011

[Off-Topic] Opinions, Truths, Democracy and Ethics

May 4, 2011

[Off-Topic] Mea Culpa: Democratic Organizations Don't Work

April 25, 2011

[Off-Topic] Demystifying the "Evil" Microsoft

February 20, 2011

[Off-Topic] The Fountainhead: Howard Roark's Defense

February 4, 2011

[Off-Topic] Atlas Shrugged: Is Money the Root of All Evil?

February 3, 2011

[Off-Topic] Jeff Patton and Megan Fox in the same post?

June 27, 2010

[Off-Topic] The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra

April 12, 2010

[Off-Topic] Penn & Teller and Larry Flynt, on Freedom

March 7, 2010

[Off-Topic] Reading the Agile Principles

January 30, 2010

[Off-Topic] Who's the Idiot?

January 8, 2010

[Off-Topic] You Don't Understand Anything About Scrum

December 10, 2009

[Off-Topic] Obedience to Authority

November 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] Cell Phones and Airplanes

November 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Problem of Credentials

November 4, 2009

[Off-Topic] Thinking Makes You Better

September 26, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Argument from Intimidation

September 12, 2009

[Off-Topic] Man's Rights

September 9, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Cult of Gray Morality

September 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Damn Regulation Law Is Back!

August 22, 2009

[Off-Topic] Intervene or Not? The "Catch-22" of Co-Pilots

July 18, 2009

[Off-Topic] Net Negative Producing Programmer

March 30, 2009

Translation: Technical Debt

December 18, 2008

Off-Topic: Scientific Method vs Cargo Cult

December 16, 2008

Off-Topic: Understanding the Economic Crisis

October 9, 2008

Off-Topic: The Agile Manifesto, or How to Become Google

October 7, 2008

Off-Topic: The Power of Myth, Redux

September 20, 2008

Off Topic: Let's All Stop the Regulation of the Systems Analyst Profession

April 19, 2008

Off Topic: Never Trust TIOBE

April 13, 2008

Off Topic: We Are Mathematically Illiterate

March 1, 2008

Translation: I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It

February 10, 2008

Off Topic: Enemies of Reason

August 23, 2007

Kathy Sierra: Dilbert and the Zone of Mediocrity

October 19, 2006

Evolution Through Competition

September 27, 2006