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‘IT pays’ doesn’t pay

Picture this rather common scenario– You are in charge of a project for developing an internal application at a large brick-and-mortar company. Your target audience for the application are the employees of a critical business department (here on, Department X). The customer representative is the head of that department and is glad to be involved [...]

War story on why C&C management sucks

Joel Spolsky has another lovely article out titled, “The Command and Control Management Method“. While he hits the nail on the head for most of the article, I feel he misses one of the main reasons while C&C management does not work for software development teams. Actually, he misses one of the main reasons the [...]