I guess you live in a different world than I do

From time to time in discussions, people will use a phrase like the one above. What it means, of course, is that the recipient is an idiot who doesn’t understand what’s going on. The statement means “I cannot refute your…

Long Backlogs

On the leandevelopment list, there has been a bit of a discussion on how long the “backlog” should be, and why. This was triggered in part by a posting from Mary Poppendieck, in which she said:

It doesn’t matter who…

Stretch Goals

For some reason, I’m remembering a guy in Florida who pushed his team to commit to more and more. I asked him why after the meeting. He said “People need stretch goals.”

Now a little pressure helps me get things…

Faith-based Decision Making

Science and the scientific approach works well for many purposes, including possibly its ability to convince others.

When we make decisions based on any kind of “true faith” approach,

Throw-Down Duck

This idea came up while Chet and I were discussing politician’s answers to questions, which seem often to have nothing to do with the original question.

Q: Senator, what is your position on launching a pre-emptive attack against Georgia?

A:…

Kate Oneal Comments

I’m more or less beavering away on the Kate Oneal articles. The overall flow of the book will be events throughout Kate’s project, company, career. For now, articles are roughly chronological but are covering topics that she and I think…

Enabling Comments

Thought I’d enable comments just to see what happens. I’m requiring name and email and, I think, moderating first postings.

Let me hear from you. Thanks!

Lipstick on a Pig

Don’t these people have anything useful to do? Even if Obama had been referring to Palin as a pig, which he clearly wasn’t, if you’re grown up enough to run for VP you’re grown up enough to wave off a…