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

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

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.

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

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.