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12 Secrets to Application Development Nirvana

A New Model for Lean Culture

Adaptive Startup for the Mac

An Agile Acid Test

Anatomy of a Web Site

Art as Apple Strategy

Broken Field Running

CMMI Take 2

CMMI as a Developmental Model

Cell Phones and Sheet Metal

Customer Communication

Developmental Levels

EVM for Mere Mortals

Getting Metrics Right

Human Nature

Keeping Your Project Sold

Manage Different

Model Mania

My Position on the CMMI

Process QA

Process, Projects and Customers — The Unholy Trinity

Proposal for an Alternative to Facebook

Purpose-Driven Documentation

Reasons for Belief

Reflections on Postel’s Law

Religious Freedom

Schembechler, Bacon and Leadership

Service Overload

Software is Different

Stringing Me Along

Successful Business Strategies (As Recently Demonstrated by Apple)

Take the Agile Train

Taming the E-mail Monster

Tech Titans Compete

Templates — The Devil’s Spawn or the One True Path

Ten Reasons to Ditch Your Word Documents

The 4-D Lifecycle

The Apple Checklist

The Documentation Dilemma

The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

The Four Quadrants of Human Knowledge

The Nature of God

The Power of Diverse Teams

The Process Prescription Polarity

The Progress Polarity

The Requirements Problem

The Systemic Era

The Watery Ketchup Stops Here

Thinking Differently about Perfectionism

Thoughts on the Microsoft Surface

To COTS or Not That is the Question

Types of Metrics

Types of Web Sites

UM Alumni Club Membership

UX and IT

Using iTunes Match with CD-Quality Sound

What does it mean to be World Class IT

Why Is Software Documentation So Hard

Why Wiki