“The capacity of humans to deceive each other is well documented by history and personal experience. Less well known, however, is the capacity of most living things to deceive each other – species deceiving other species, members of their own species and themselves. We are, it seems, not that different from parasites, insects and bacteria in this regard.”
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What do you wish your CEO knew about Agile?
“If you could get the boss to understand one thing, just ONE THING, related to Agile development… what would it be? Why that?”
“I’ve been thinking lately about the subject of accountability. After communication, accountability is the issue that my clients most often point out as areas that need improvement. As a manager, holding my employees accountable was probably my biggest challenge.”
Project Headaches “ More to Come
“Computerworld does an annual Vital Signs survey of IT managers. The number one management challenge identified by respondents is now Managing Projects. This is up from its number three ranking last year.”
“Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.”
“Humans and higher primates share approximately 97% of their DNA in common. Recent research in primate programming suggests computing is a task that most higher primates can easily perform. Visual Basic 6.0 was the preferred IDE for the majority of experiment primate subjects.”
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About primate programming. Check out the orang-utan programming language.
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
May even be better then the VB 6.0 IDE.