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Yes. More organisations should follow the lead of Bristol Council: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/07/when-zombies-a... - Most are are in the deplorable state of unprepa…

Out of curiosity, which of the indicators of bad science from that letter do you believe apply to this article?

Hi alttag. Can you explain your comment in more detail? The intent of the article is not to say that delays are good or bad, but that they are inherent and inevitable, and must be …

The biggest obstacle to me using TrollScript professionally is lack of testing tools. Troll-driven development is a fundamental tenet of XP which I'm not willing to forsake. Is any…

I think this is a case of premature optimisation. Trolls under Bridges is struggling to hit v1.0 due to the limited memory capacity of trolls, but someone is hard at work on a Node…

Hi hammock, thanks for the comment (I'm the author). For some reason you've reminded me of the motivation factors Dan Pink talks about. I wonder if trying to commit to estimates ma…

btilly, thanks for the reference to this. I've added it to my Goodreads list.

This is why Kanban and its focus on lead time is more valuable than Scrum and its focus on velocity, IMO.

Re "environmental contributions", that was part of the discussion, but thinking about it - estimating total effort and elapsed calendar time are very different!

Haha, yes. That is the bottom line. But once they ask "why?", then OMG, worms everywhere! My post is definitely not suitable for most management, but in a discussion with a bunch o…

Thanks for the replies both. Yes, this is one of the issues I have found: honesty over the risk in a project can make you look more expensive if you don't explain it carefully. Thi…

This was not actually the case, but I realise my writing was not clear, so I've improved the wording in the story.

Thanks again for your comment, as you replied both here and on the blog, I'll repost my reply here: John, thanks for your detailed reply. Sorry I could not respond sooner. I realis…

While you can get the benefit of clarity by stepping away from the keyboard for a while, I've found the best return is from test-driven development. TDD forces you to think about w…

The thing I found by far the most interesting is about the sales process / incentives. On the one hand, Apple is not encouraging dysfunctional competition within the team: > We are…