Productivity
It’s about the Individual, not The Team!
I am so tired of late hearing about how it takes great teams to succeed. Whether it’s software development, starting a business, or football, the dogma is the same: “It takes a great team to win!”. That’s baloney!
The one thing that’s often overlooked by the people preaching this non-sense is Pareto’s Law (80-20 Rule). Which [...]
Programmer Productivity
What makes a programmer productive?
There are lots of ideas about this and I have a few of my own. I have read some interesting articles and books on Pareto’s Law (The 80/20 Rule) and am finding that most productivity comes from just a few things.
3 Most Effective
The Language – The language you choose to do [...]
My Do Not List (!To-Do)
I’ve been working lately on creating a DO NOT LIST, my first few items are below:
Do not multi-task, I find that when I do this I end up doing all items half-a$$ed.
Do not check email and Google reader all the time. I’ve found this tough to do, I think it’s because I’m so conditioned to [...]
Arch Villains – FUD Man & Frameworkinstein
I was reading this article over at 37signals and I realized that my enemy is inefficiency and it takes form in two arch villains:
FUD Man – This is the person on the team or the architect that creates enough Fear Uncertainty and Doubt to ensure a solution/application is over-engineered and over-budgeted. This usually takes the [...]
Perfecting Lazy
Over the past three weeks I have been perfecting one thing, being lazy. Not lazy in the sense where I do nothing, but lazy in a way that we drive cars instead of walk, that we use washing machines instead of washing boards, that we use computers instead of pen and paper.
Some of the things [...]
One Project – A Robot Building DVD
I think that this year I am going to try and limit myself to one project at a time, rather than starting three or four and doing them all partially and then getting frustrated at the results.
The whole multi-tasking concept is dead for now. My thinking today is that if something is worth doing, it’s [...]
Giving Up Stuff
I am re-reading my book, The Power of Less, and have noticed for the past 5 days I have given up, hourly email checks, television, news, RSS, and all the other things that I waste my time doing when I’m back home. I am so relaxed.
It makes you think about all of the things you [...]