March 2010
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Unintended Consequences
There is an old adage in management circles that people optimise their work towards what is measured. In my business if you measure someone on the number of bugs they fix it has been observed that some programmers will actually introduce problems in their code just so that they can fix them and increase their …
Things worth mentioning
Once more it has been a little quiet around these parts. Whilst I’m busy doing things other than writing here are some things which I have recently discovered to be rather good: Outbursts – the last track on Outbursts by Turin Brakes Glad and Sorry – track 3 on CD2 of There’s a Whole New …
A Quiet Weekend at the Beach
We’ve just had our annual weekend at the beach in Huskisson, and a great time was had by all. Most of us were expecting a couple of quiet days by the beach with the evenings spent in convivial conversation, good food and perhaps a glass of wine or two. Little did we know that Team …