I’ve not seen anyone’s response to this. I don’t want to add to my reading any more than I have to at this point, but it looks like something I’ll want to deploy at BIG. I’m slightly familiar with Isaacs’s work on The Dialogue Project but I’ve never read any of his work. The Amazon [...]

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Recently I came across the interesting fact that most of us only remember about 20% of what we hear. While we may think that our children have perfected this selective filter of “in one ear and out the other”, in fact most of us do not really take in much of what goes in. Some [...]

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I think that using Construction as a metaphor has run its course of usefulness. It’s time to get another one.

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Good news! Michael Blaha’s article, “A Copper Bullet for Software Quality Improvement”, from the February issue of IEEE’s Computer is now available online.

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You wouldn’t think that books dicussing agronomics would have much to say relevant to Organizational Structure, IT Management or Knowledge Management. You’d be wrong, of course, but you can see how people would think that. I’d like to show how some of the ideas being debated in the agricultural industry’s fringes can illuminate our own [...]

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Jack Vinson has an interesting (as usual) report on a recent presentation by Bob Hiebeler of St. Charles Partners. What interests me is the discussion of “best practices”. I believe that the problems of High Modernism (described by James C. Scott in Seeing Like a State) will create problems in the areas of Business Process [...]

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There. I’ve just shown how there is no need to have an insurance business in America. Send it all to India.

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Cited: Phillip G. Armour. “Beware of Counting LOC”. Communications of the ACM. [Mar 2004] 47(3):21-24.
I’ve mentioned articles by Phillip Armour of Corvus International (Deer Park, IL) before: he writes a regular feature in Communications called “The Business of Software” and normally features some of the tougher, management-oriented problems of development. This month he tackles how [...]

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