Perhaps our core approach to solving problems is much like a saucier making the perfect jus: reduce and test. This is applied to any part of the information science process — whether it’s strategy, requirements, architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, or lifecycle management. Reduce all along the way: Minimise inputs, activities, and outputs to improve [...]
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Went to an album launch for a local Sydney band down at the Basement during the week. Fantastic live performance. Superb company. All in all, a very pleasant night out.
Check out this fantastic new book that’ll help drag physical data modelling into the agile arena… Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage, my fellow ThoughtWorker. No secret that I reckon it’s the best book out at the moment, not just because I got a mention in the acknowledgements
Time for a poem. One from some time ago. Can you feel the angst? The wishes in a dream Pebbles for my stream The rain when it showers Water for my flowers The sun when it shines Music for my rhymes The wind when it blows Words for my prose The fire when it’s burning [...]
From an email: True belief is a strange thing. It doesn’t matter what transpires, or what is being told to you, or what other thoughts (logical or irrational) that fly through your head, you still believe. Sometimes, it’s just Time that tells – or perhaps it’s really forgetfulness. It’s a burden and a comfort. I [...]
At a little company dinner last night to welcome our company president to town, we dined at a restaurant serving very nice Chinese and Malaysian food. At the end of the meal, Marijean made sure everyone appended the words “in bed” to their fortune. With much laughter, we went around the two tables. The best [...]
A very funny site: http://www.waterfall2006.com/ Mike Cohn, you’re a comic genius.
Elizabeth Keogh has been blogging about Haiku lately and this has inspired me to post an extended poem I wrote about 18 months or so ago. It was written in and about a pizza place called “Bravo” in Sydney. 101 pasta dishes and one of the original late-night gelato bars is their claim to fame. [...]
From a friend of mine in the spirit of Bastille Day, and dedicated to Dr Jim… Be aware that the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise was precipitated by a recent fire [...]
The initial blog. I’ve resigned from Optus after getting some amazing enterprise-class web infrastructure in and the new corporate web site is about to be launched. Long live the Lazarus and Strategic Web Channel Launch programmes. After many months of discussion, I’ve joined ThoughtWorks. I’ll be joining some of my new colleagues and other clever [...]
