management
Just-in-time manufacturing
Central planning gives poor results
Direct management
The problem of schedule
Managing Oneself
Say yes and never do it
Muda, Muri, Mura
Why Scrum is killing your product
The management strategy that saved Apollo 11
Traditional companies are losing because they mismanage software engineers
PM and UX Have Markedly Different Views of Their Job Responsibilities
Agile as Trauma
An Essay by Dorian TaylorThe Agile Manifesto is an immune response on the part of programmers to bad management.
Difficult to work with
A Tweet"Someone recently told me that 'difficult to work with' often really means 'difficult to take advantage of' in creative industries, and I haven’t stopped thinking about that for weeks" — @AdalynGrace_
Trees and graphs
A tree is a kind of graph, but a graph can be considerably more complex than a tree.
I have reason to believe, which for brevity’s sake I will treat elsewhere, that the most complex class of processes and structures we humans can consciously prescribe, reduces mathematically to a tree. A tree has a top, bottom, left and right. Its branches fan out from the trunk and they don’t intersect with one another. They are discrete, contiguous, identifiable objects which persist across time. Trees are Things.
Software and websites, however, reduce to arbitrarily more complex structures: they are graphs. A graph has no meaningful orientation whatsoever. No sequence, no obvious start or end—at least none that we can intuit. It is better considered not as one Thing, but as a federation of Things, like the brain or a fungus network, or perhaps a composite artifact left behind from an ongoing process, like an ant colony or human city.