The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

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

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

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."

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

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.