The More Things Change In Programming The More They Remain The Same
Software that used to take minutes to complete a full build now start with fetching from the repository and may require an hour or more to build.
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You Didn’t See The Real Problem
If you don’t find the solution, it’s because you didn’t see the real problem.
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It’s Fair. We Have To Fix Someone Else’s Problems
It’s not fair. When we screw up, it’s fair, we have to fix it. But it feels less fair when we have to fix someone’s else’s problems.
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Deep Dive
In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations.
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Let Others Do the Work
It was a scrum. No, not the agile software method, but a bunch of people all racing after the current big defect found in the product. It was a badge of merit to be the first to figure out the defect and to report on its fix. My boss expected me to jump into this competition of egos when these problems happened.
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Deep Dive Into The Little Problems Now
Essentially, it was by luck. At ongoing hearings, senior bank executive Clive van Horen explained that the error had escaped numerous internal bank controls that should have caught it. The error was finally uncovered after troubling questions were raised over the bank’s overdraft application process...
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What Are The False Ideas That We Believe Today?
An expert is someone who has mastery of current knowledge, not of future knowledge.
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Cheaters Promoted to Top Jobs
Two top Volkswagen engineers who found they couldn’t deliver as promised a clean diesel engine for the U.S. market are at the center of a company probe into the installation of engine software designed to fool regulators …. The two men, Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi’s chief...
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Lessons Learned From The California Drought
California captures enough water each year to meet all its needs if it operates efficiently — a big if. … “There’s learning, information sharing, creativity, and discovery.” The drought is speeding up the process. “What causes change more than anything is crisis,” Thomas Howard, executive...
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Lessons Learned From The US Internal Revenue System
More money, more people and more time is not always the solution. Sometimes -- often times -- the solution is simply to take another approach, such as trusting people.
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When Not To Be Persuaded
If employers don’t think their workers can manage the shift to defined-contribution retirement plans, why make it? Here, the companies were remarkably candid.
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How To Game The System – Lessons Learned From The Veteran Affairs Department
These “gaming strategies” were used to make it appear that veterans were getting appointments within target times set by the department.
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Lessons We’ll Learn From The Failed Oregon Healthcare Website
The lawsuit filed against Oracle by the Attorney General of Oregon is a desperate attempt to deflect blame for their failures to manage a complex IT project.
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Project Management Lessons From Keith Richards
Mr. Richards spent thousands of hours studying all the great blues artists and rock virtuosos and integrated this knowledge into his musical compositions.
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When Product Success Is Bad For Project Management
Success can be a very bad thing and only perpetuate bad practices, until they finally eat out the soul of the company.
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