Yes, I decided to make “Enron” into a verb in my latest InformIT article on technical debt titled “Don’t Enron Your Software Project”. The idea is quite simple – if you are hiding technical debt rather than disclosing it to the project sponsor at the time of turnover of version 1, you are really doing [...]
Sorry for lack of posting, but true to my moniker as a “Nomadic Developer”, I have been in China off and on (mostly on) for 5 weeks, working with a team on a project that we are doing at our ThoughtWorks office in Beijing. Some thoughts so far. The first thought is how awestruck I [...]
The first article in my series about technical debt is up at InformIT, covering the concept of “Scrummerfall”, the insidious mixing of Scrum and Waterfall so you can pretend to be agile, but sadly, end up with simply a mess. In the article, I introduce the persona of the “Hubricist”. The Hubricist is the inner [...]
On InformIT.com, I have published a selection of jargon terms from my book. Some of the terms many consultants will be very familar with, some perhaps not so. I am also taking this opportunity to announce that the next article series on InformIT will be diving into the topic of “The Economics of Technical Debt”. [...]
If you have not heard it already, I was interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell on .NET rocks on the topic of technology consulting. Specifically, we discussed how to avoid working for one of the “seven deadly firms” and musing about life as a consultant. Check it out!
In the previous post in this series, we explored the relationship between consulting and financial capital, and how the latter often is very harmful to the former, particularly in large amounts. The real question, though, is what that implies. Indeed, the chief reason given of why companies must always grow, is that: Capital seeks the [...]
When was the last time a technology consulting company had an Initial Public Offering (IPO)? Exactly. It rarely happens, and when it does, it is the exception, rather than the rule. However, back in the pre-dot-bomb era, you had these things all the time. Remember Scient, Viant, Sapient, MarchFirst, and a plethora of other companies [...]
A shorter version of the essay I wrote in The Nomadic Developer: Consultopia, is up on InformIT.com. Of all the things I wrote in my book, I think this essay was the most fun for me to write. It is not every day that I get to yell out to the world that mission statements [...]
At ThoughtWorks, my role is technical, however, as do many ThoughtWorkers, I do work on things like proposals or business development opportunities from time to time, especially when between assignments. One thing you might be surprised about with ThoughtWorks is that the value proposition isn’t that “We are The Agile Company”. This makes sense if you think [...]
Yes, it’s true – I finally made the jump. Magenic (my employer through the end of May) was – and is – a great place to work. Leaving my Magenic has been one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. However, given the opportunity to not just do agile development – but do agile [...]
