There are two types of management, managing for a field you’re familiar with, and managing for a field you’re not. In the case of managing for a field you’re familiar with, you’re going to leverage a lot of your experience and expertise to make decisions. In the case of managing for a field you’re not …
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Harsh on self, Harsh on others
I realize that in my world, there is working or broken, completed or incomplete, one or zero. A delivery is not complete until it is delivered and proven working, until then, it’s incomplete. I don’t like making promises until I’m relatively certain that it can be delivered, and this certainty can only be obtained through …
Testing, Delivery, and Confidence
I’m often asked regarding how likely a code deployment will deliver the expected results. It’s actually a very simplistic formula, the answer is a neutral answer, but people often think of it as either over positive, or over negative, more frequently the later. Chance of delivering on time is a function of: testing, how recent …