Very interesting presentation in the InfoQ site called Agile Project management: Lessons Learned at Google.

Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google’s first implementation of Scrum. He tells how Google started with no engineering management, then gradually introduced Scrum without spoiling the development culture formed over the years.

PierG

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Personally, I think that having a certification (in the IT space) is usually a good sign of commitment and shows a great tension to personal improvement … and often nothing more.

Moreover I don’t think is usually a real preference in evaluating a potential candidate: it doesn’t add a decisive contribution to the real competence and skills of the person.

It shows, in my opinion, an attitude to personal development: if it’ is not equipped with something else .. it’s just a piece of paper (and, lately, a big business for vendors).

PierG

As I wrote yesterday, I wrote 410 posts: a big number !! What’s even more interesting for me, is that I have readers from (almost) all over the world:

Surely I have readers in places that I don’t know … so … MANY THANKS to all of you!

PierG

I’ve just discovered that I did 410 posts in something more than two years.

WOW!!!

PierG

Remy’s Dad <<You can’t change nature>>

Remy <<CHANGE IS NATURE, Dad, the part that WE CAN INFLUENCE. And it starts when WE DECIDE>>

From Ratatouille that I saw for the first time yesterday evening with my son.

PierG

I usually take my son to the kindergarten: it’s almost a ‘rite’ that we have every morning since he is 1 year old.

We arrive pretty early and we always see the same situation: the kindergarten parking empty and the same car parked on one side of the small road that goes through the parking itself (in the picture you can see part of the empty parking on the left, and the car on the right).

That’s such a bad habit that the teachers have organized posters all over the place, written by pupils, to discourage it.

The problem is that in the morning, when the parking is EMPTY, this is so evident that my son notices it and some days ago asked ‘why is she putting the car here while there is empty space there?’

Has any dad or mum a good advice for me?

PierG

You are in a Project Review. A problem is detected.

Boss1 <<Tom, have a look at the problem and let me know if you are in troubles>>

Boss2 <<Tom, have a look at the problem, collect this and this, check that and that, and then come and show me what you found>>

Which Boss do you prefer? Can you suggest even a different approach?

PierG

Being a manager implies to have great self control and modesty. Unfortunately ever human that gain power tends to overdo … and that’s true for managers too!

It’s like babies: they ape adults to learn … and sometimes they overdo. Even worst result when the model is ‘dangerous’.

PierG

As you know if you read this blog, I’m involved in studying the relationship between IT departments and other departments and how this relationship is different.

A client of mine has received this email recently:

Why do we need all these docs / emails to authorize / perform this task? Change the way in which you do this stuff and do it in a better way!

Here is one of the differences: who can use a mouse, feels himself authorized to explain to IT guys that they are wrong, that they have to change and often how to change … no matter if they are right or wrong, no matter if they know what are talking about.

PierG

Last weekend my brother won the semi finals and managed to qualify for the Italian Finals of Game Fishing: he is officially among the best 20 in Italy.

Well done brother!

PierG