Lengthening The Feedback Loop

As you go through my site, you will find once in a while references to feedback loops. I came across a very good posting about feedback loops in a wider context written by Julia Evans: Lengthening the Feedback Loop: A History of Feedback Within the Context of Systems Theory.

Gantt Charts Suck. Alternatives?

Edward Tufte is the authority on the use of graphics as a source of information. On his site there is this discussion going on for some years now on why Gantt Charts suck (duh… think about 300 page charts ) and what the alternatives might be. Click here. It is a long read, but quite …

CMM Revisited: Oh Yeah, There Is Something Outside The Project

Sometimes I tend to focus too much on the project itself; how to handle things, how to plan and deal with everyday interruption. I look and an interruption I think: “where the heck that it came from?” Well, the answer my friend is: from the outside. After running a certain project for a long while …