Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips We are often the way we are because of our situation, not by a choice. Sometimes our situation forces us into “good.” Slim and trim are good. At least being slim is seen as good by most of western society at this time in the 21st century. Obesity is not good. Again, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips After being asked the same question for years, perhaps I have found the answer to, “What is it that you do?” I have spoken to many job recruiters. I have spoken to many persons in job interviews. Some of these persons ask a variation of the question: What is it that you […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If work is important enough to be performed, the product is important enough to be inspected. Someone is supposed to do something. Okay. Do it. Next. Right? This is a note to project managers and those who may think we don’t need or maybe need project managers: You get what you inspect, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The first step, if taken carefully, eliminates almost all other directions from consideration and frees the mind for everything else. I’ve read about trackers, i.e., those persons who are assigned to find someone who is lost. They find people lost in the woods. The most important thing the tracker does is to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If I work directly for you, I will do as you say. If, however, your are three or four levels distant, meh. A number of years ago I wrote about the information thermocline. Bureaucracies tend to reduce the flow of information as it attempts to pass from the top to the bottom. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips In which professionals show Parkinson how to make some real dough. Parkinson’s law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law When work is slow, it expands. That is, the workers […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The search to find a method to develop software tended to pass over the fact that smart people were doing a good job while those who struggled simply struggled. Back in the early days, smart persons were writing software. They did it well, their software ran correctly. Look at the first word, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips An old person, who was around in the 1970s, looks back at the Waterfall process of software development. The waterfall process. Of course the pure waterfall doesn’t work, that is why competent persons never used it. Go way back when and realize that graphics programs (Paint, Draw, Misio) weren’t available. It was […]

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by Dwayne Phillips What interests me today? The project that I am working today? Perhaps not. I know I am working on this project today, but it is just another project. Sure, I want it to succeed, but really, it’s just another one. What really interests me is finding the BIG IDEA. That thing that […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I am a person working technology. That is my identity. Oh wait, maybe not. Yikes. Am I involved in management? Probably. DevSecOps is the current buzzword among those of us who write computer programs. It is an abbreviation for combing development, security, and operations. It is all sorts of technical things that […]

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