Pies, damn pies and charts As just about everyone I know knows, I’m in a band. I never meant to be, it just kind of evolved, out of a ukulele based collective

Let me tell you a secret... I’ve been working for 32 years this year. It seems hardly possible: not only do I wonder where the time has gone, I also wonder if

Terminological topics Is software development an engineering discipline? It’s certainly nice to think of it in that way. Indeed, it’s a topic I covered in the first article I ever wrote,

There must be a law somewhere which states that epiphanies have to be personal. That would explain the feeling that businesses never really learn the basics of, say, agility or how to build

Putting the horse before the cart Epiphanies can come from the strangest of moments. There I was, half way through drafting a bulletin and I suddenly realised, no, it’s all wrong. Or