How Much is Enough?

March 25, 2007 by Jim Brosseau · Comment
Filed under: Process, Project management 

Quite often in working with clients, questions will pop up in a vein that fits into the general theme of “How much of this should I do, how many of these should I have?” Read more

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Technological Heart Attack

March 18, 2007 by Jim Brosseau · Comment
Filed under: Agility, Leadership 

Whirr-click…whirr-click…barely perceptible. I wouldn’t have noticed it at all, except for the fact that I was starting to wonder whether my computer was going to wake up at all. Read more

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Validate Your Assumptions

March 11, 2007 by Jim Brosseau · Comment
Filed under: Leadership, People 

Last week I mentioned a particularly nasty bug from way back that held us up for weeks as we were trying to implement an RS422 protocol between two devices. Read more

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Use The Force

March 4, 2007 by Jim Brosseau · Comment
Filed under: Process, Project management 

Way back, about 20 years ago (OK, perhaps a bit further back…), I started my career working on embedded systems. At one point, I recall debugging a serial protocol between two devices. There was one particularly nasty problem, one that for quite a while simply refused to be solved. More about that nasty bug and the lessons learned next week. Read more

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