Stacey on Software: Leadership

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  • Taking a stand, saying NO to software development quotes

    Starting Tuesday, I will no longer issue quotes for software development. I've been doing a lot of thinking about our Software Development…

  • Off To Find My Shoes

    So, I recently blogged about my new "No Quotes" policy at Three Wise Men, and I've blogged in the past about the perils of software…

  • Continuous Improvement: Tools or Process?

    Any organization who wants to survive needs to realize that they need to implement some level of Continuous Improvement. This is a concept…

  • My Ongoing Battle with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (PMP)

    Introduction So, I haven't told a lot of people about this. Truly, it has taken me a year to learn what I know now, and my journey isn't…

  • Why a Worker's Cooperative

    This past weekend I was at the Software Craftsmanship North America conference (SCNA) hosted by 8th Light in Chicago. This is a wonderful…

  • In Memory of Nancy Diamond

    When I was growing up, I didn't have a lot of friends. I had a small circle of friends in high school, and through this small circle of…

  • Coaching for “likability”

    Lately, I’ve been exposed to some commercial coaching practices that push the idea of “likability”, they seem to imply that if you develop…

  • Scientific Management

    In 1909, Frederick Taylor published a paper entitled The Principles of Scientific Management. At this time in history, things got made by…

  • What Do You Design?

    I was talking with a colleague today about how GenAI is rewriting all our playbooks. Not just the technical ones—the organizational ones too…