Project Management

August 28th, 2012

Vanilla Kanban

There are plenty of Kanban/Scrum/$agile tools out there. In the case of Atlassians Greenhopper you can start with $20 (Greenhopper costs $10 but you need a copy of Jira for it which has a cost of another $10). It is a nice offer but you need to install it somewhere on your machine which has [...]

July 18th, 2012

Zen Programming: The Path Of Ruin

Today I was working on the “The Zen Programmer” book. While writing about the reasons we should practice Zen Programming, I remembered something one of the CEOs of a pretty big company said to his employees. It translates best to something like:”You must stay longer because I want to see the feature tomorrow morning. Well, [...]

February 3rd, 2012

The 10 rules of a Zen programmer

UPDATE: You want a book on Zen Programming? Click here. On a rainy morning I found myself sitting on the desk thinking about efficient working. Before I started as a freelancer I had some days were I worked lots but could look only back on a worse outcome. I started with Zen practice back in [...]

October 6th, 2010

Hierarchical company structures

“Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompetence.” – Laurence Peter

September 4th, 2010

You cannot see your reflection in running water

John Cleese – a recommendation of a a video