Be Nice

Well put

I don't care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you're rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don't understand your... quirks.... you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or someone who they simply can't understand, or someone whose reaction to every issue is to start wailing about the end of the world

Check out Catherine Powell full blog at http://blog.abakas.com/2009/06/be-nice.html

Automation is Overrated!

Imagine that in our project we have a manual build process that is complex. Sadly, this is not that difficult to imagine. Obviously the manual build process is reducing our ability to release our software often. Close your eye for a minute and think how will you will solve this problem.

When I asked this question to some of my friends, most of them told me they will automate the build process. I bet even you came up with automating build process as a solution. Automating the build process looks like a logical solution. If you give some more thought, you will realize that we are just automating the complexity that is there in the build process. We are not simplifying the build process. Even though we automated our build process it is still complex and it is going to be difficult to change.

So next time before automating a complex process, first simplify that process. If you simplify a complex process, as a added bonus it will be easy to automate.

Check out my other blogs on Lean at http://bizdriven.blogspot.com/search/label/Lean

What makes a group of people a team?

A group of people are a team when they,

• Have Common Goal
• Have Mutual Commitment
• Synchronize their effects and
• Trust and Respect Each Other

Otherwise they are just a group of people not a team.

Check out my other blogs on Team at http://bizdriven.blogspot.com/search/label/Team

It is the system

"It is the system, not the workers, that creates defects and lowers productivity"

-- W. Edwards Deming