Rogel @ September 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The last few days were pretty hectic, and it is going to be somewhat crazier in the days to come. An important project, with crazy deadline, requires most of my attention for the next few days. Not surprisingly, more than I’m missing updating this blog I’m missing reading others. The reading backlog is simply unbelievable…
And, […]
Rogel @ January 8, 2007 # 2 Comments
Thank for the detailed response Mark. The discussion that can develop around my orignal post and your response deserve a post of its own
I agree with you that you shouldn’t trust the newspapers. However from your own description of the project I’m afraid that the news report missed the main point. Yes, obviously […]
Rogel @ January 6, 2007 # 2 Comments
Isn’t this story just perfect? the combination of wasting the tax payer money for some comlitly idiotic project together with a consulting firm that its main expert is to milk more money from the client. What else can generate a project that intend to increase the productivity by better organization of their desk space?
Civil servants are […]
Rogel @ November 26, 2006 # No Comment Yet
If you ever wondered what happen when the process takes first priority and the organization become purpose for itself, instead of what it produce - go and read this:
So that nets us a conservative estimate of 24 people involved in this feature. Also each team of 8 was separated by 6 layers of management from […]
Rogel @ November 10, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Go read the entire post, it is really good:
The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. The best part is that most management consultants, the stunningly good-looking, bright, earnest chipmunks with 4.0s in Russian Lit from Harvard who work for these companies, have absolutely no way […]
Rogel @ October 9, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Although I have strong reservations from a methodology suggested in this post, suggesting to give the developer the work and to get the results when they are done - when ever this lucky day arrives, I just love this quote:
if you start with an Agile Methodology, and you add enough hard work, you get a […]
Rogel @ September 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The rest of us have all known that Agile Methodologies are stupid, by application of any of the following well-known laws of marketing:- anything that calls itself a “Methodology” is stupid, on general principle.- anything that requires “evangelists” and offers seminars, exists soley for the purpose of making money.- anything that never mentions any competition […]
Rogel @ September 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Working in he same company since it was a start-up, with mainly the same team of developer bound to produce e-mails like this:
Incoming:
Today I discovered a new Parkinson law:
The bigger company is, the more percentage of idiots it can afford.
Outgoing:
I’m going to publish it!
Incoming:
Be my guest. We can use it as […]
Rogel @ August 28, 2006 # No Comment Yet
I discovered recently another great programing blog. Each of the post is a good source of knowledge and experience and require active thinking of the reader. Here for example a post about Distributed Information Systems:
People tell the truth.
Content is independent of presentation.
Syntax doesn’t matter.
Identifiers are reliable.
Metadata and data […]
Rogel @ August 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
I find this hilarious description of the technical documentation process in coding horror, along with labnotes, my favorite blog about programming.
The situation you are in is no different from any other tech writer. The technical writing process:
Ask engineer how the damn thing works.
Deafing silence.
Crickets.
Tumbleweed.
Just start writing something. […]