When is Elaborate Project Plannng Appropriate?

I got varying reactions on my last post. Some thought the story about making coffee using an extremely detailed plan was funny.  For example Fabio Akita wrote: “Planning is the death of any project” http://bit.ly/bFYkAW Just an entertainment story, but fun nonetheless I’m certainly proud to produce something that is considered fun. Yet my little [...]

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You should Provide a Service, not a Defense

Let’s assume you are manager (or just part of) a small department. The task of the department is to make sure that everybody in the company is using Grglwup for wumpeling and does so in the correct way. What do you do to achieve that? The approach I see most of the times lets me [...]

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Careers for Developers

Many developers try to get into (project)management. That is ok I guess. But what bothers me is, that many developers do that without actually wanting to be managers. It’s just that they want to make some progress and the only career option available is to get into management and manage larger and larger teams, or [...]

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