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Excuses

Neal Enssle — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:47:06 +0000

“Excuses sound like they feel.”

— Rands in Repose

DeMarco: Organizational learning

Neal Enssle — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:15:34 +0000

“Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.”

— Tom DeMarco

Lister: Think Faster

Neal Enssle — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:42:33 +0000

“People under time pressure don’t think faster.”

— Tom Lister

Platt: Managing programmers

Neal Enssle — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:03:41 +0000

“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.”

— Dave Platt

Carnegie: Success is about people

Neal Enssle — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:43:12 +0000

“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

— Dale Carnegie

McDougall: Managing vs. leading

Neal Enssle — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:36:52 +0000

“Managing is about systems and processes and resources; leading is about achievement and vision.”

— Peter McDougall

DeMarco: Measurement

Neal Enssle — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:55:51 +0000

“You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

— Tom DeMarco

Yourdon: Management

Neal Enssle — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:27 +0000

“If you think your management doesn’t know what it’s doing or that your organization turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.”

— Ed Yourdon, Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer

Chalhoub: Team development

Neal Enssle — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:14 +0000

“Team development is like a birthday cake. Everybody gets a piece.”

— Assaad Chalhoub

Spolsky: Rocket scientists in kindergarten

Neal Enssle — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:17:01 +0000

“Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning.”

— Joel Spolsky