Neanderthal Man and the BIC Lighter

And Other Assorted Office Tales

Sisyphus – One

Frustrated Guy

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.“ - Dale Carnegie

Give them

a Fire

Hydrant

Neanderthal and The BIC Lighter

Third Graders Grown-up

SellingNew Ideas

http://engineerscansell.com/

The ‘War’ of

New Ideas

http://suntzusaid.com/

Tower of

Babel

When is the bread ‘done’,?Do you really know?

Technical Debt

• Shipping first time code is like going into debt.... The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a stand-still under the debt load....–Wade Cunningham (1992)

What % of defects are removed by

these processes?

- Capers Jones, www.spr.com, 2011

Design

Inspections Code

InspectionsFormal Testing

Where’s the Shepherd?

Transparent Managers