Tag Archives: business

Kinds of Problems

Of all of the lessons I have learned doing software development, one of the most important was to recognize what kind of problem I’m trying to solve. This sounds pretty trivial, but I’m not talking about the categorization you are probably thinking of. As software professionals, we tend to look at all problems as solvable.… Read More »

Review of Slack

Slack Tom DeMarco Broadway Books, 2002 In Slack, Tom DeMarco takes a somewhat heretical position about how a business can succeed. He argues somewhat convincingly that companies need less efficiency and more slack in order to adapt to changes in their environment. DeMarco goes on to define slack as that period of time when you… Read More »