First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.