and sometimes downright fishy
thoughts on Technology and Leadership
by Herb Bowie
Tags: Pagan Tuna
Keep Creating throughout the Construction Process
The Sanctity and Importance of Sudden Death
Cockpits with Instruments Controlled by Gremlins
Careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts
Seeing the Bigger Picture from Multiple Angles
Principle of Least Astonishment
Great Design comes from Great Designers
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Vital and Significant Forms of Art
Conservatives and Progressives
The difference between construction and creation
System Architects as Storytellers
Prototyping No Substitute for Analysis and Design
The Status of Each as an Amateur
Difficulty of Requirements Discovery
Requirements Elicitation, Triage and Specification
The Supreme Goal of All Theory
Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary
An Intuitive Taste for People and Products
Underlying Intent of Process Improvement
Software Designer as Communications Artist
The Rhythm Section Could Run The Band
Control Over Plans and Commitments
Magic Answers to Software Crisis
Starting with Firm Requirements
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation
Good Management is Like The Beatles
People Don't Know What They Want Until You Show It To Them
Start with the Customer Experience
Technology married with the humanities
The Underlying Principle of the Problem
Simple Things Should be Simple
Satisfied Employees are In the Know
When you can measure what you are speaking about
Product development is a reactive process
Environment Creation Integrated into the Development Process
The Four Categories of IT Work
What Constitutes a Work Center
The Enormous Extension of our Being
My conscience got the best of me
Computer Programming Remains a Black Art
Serviceable Things, But Not Great Things
Software Much More Plastic Than Hardware
Delegation is a Slippery Slope
Involve the Team in Every Decision
Managers Can't Forget How to Develop Software
Introduction of a new order of things
We Must Respect the Other Fellow's Religion
Plot, Plan, Calculate or Postulate
Leaders are the Primary Source of Energy
Hard Discipline of Reasonableness and Honesty
Freedom of Expression in Business
We Like to Think of Ourselves as Winners
Puzzling Aspect of Waterfall Development
The Most Fundamental Lean Measurement is Cycle Time
Open Source Development Styles
The Design Document is a Source Code Listing
The Mind-Numbing Bureaucracy of Centralized Control
Progress Depends on Retentiveness
ESPN president meets Steve Jobs
Progress Depends on the Unreasonable Man
The Trick in Keeping Bands Together
A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures
Those Sharp, Scratchy, Harsh, Almost Unpleasant Guys