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Tip of the Iceberg Problem: Throw code at your users!

Friday, October 1, 2010

Users tell you “this should be easy”, “you only have to do x”, “just another button here”? Give them the direct experience of their fallacy: **Throw the source code at them!** Today, a colleague from the sales department, an internal user of one of our IT products, said he could not imagine that the app [...]

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Avoiding team erosion: why codebase growth and teamsize have to be aligned overtime

Saturday, September 25, 2010

In this short post, I’m going to share my thoughts on why I think it is neccessary to align your software project portfolios growth with that of the development department headcount. This sounds logical enough but not actively managing this can lead to an unwanted team erosion that you will only discover when it is [...]

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