Tag: management
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If speeding up coding was never the problem…then why are we spending money on speeding it up?
When it comes to measuring developer productivity driven by AI, we’ll probably land on the same conclusion as always: counting lines of code isn’t as useful as measuring the full cycle time from idea to code to delivery to a person actually using the app – lead time, concept to cash, whatever you want to…
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Got your deck ready?
Image by geralt on Pixabay. The mystery is why everyone is using presentation software for communication that is not a presentation. Predicable, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this post since first reading it. The mystery of this is that everyone complains about slides-driven work cultures, but the revealed preference is that people…
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Laws, anecdotes, and other shit people say
Betty Crocker, mid-1950s. I heard a reference the Betty Crocker “add an egg” cake-mix story recently. It is: originally, people didn’t buy the cake mix because it felt too easy and didn’t feel loving, or at least sufficiently Calvinistic; General Mills removed the egg, then people cracked one in themselves, and suddenly they felt like…
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Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…
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Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms
For your enterprise AI projects, what you want now is resilience. I’m using that term from a paper called “AI as a Normal Technology.” There, resilience means ” taking actions now to improve our ability to deal with unexpected developments in the future.” There’s a lot of great thinking in that paper, but I want…
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Scoping questions for business books
What type of organization is this book for? IBM or Facebook or OpenAI? Netflix or Warner Brothers? Mercedes or Tesla? Alaska or Belgium? Delta or SpaceX? HSBC or Square? Does this apply to management, employees, VCs, Wall Street investors, or customers? Feel free to pick multiple, but explain. Is this a playbook for how a…
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\”software-defined washing\” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference
[“software-defined washing” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference](http://www.information-age.com/it-management/strategy-and-innovation/123458008/it-leaders-convene-london-uks-first-software-defined-conference)
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The research reported in this book … shows that in the cases of well-managed firms… . good management was the most powerful reason they failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…
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No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time
[M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were completed, improving economic efficiency, maximizing labor and machine productivity. Not a lot of creativity is needed; in fact, it might even be inefficient.” And as I like to point out: he didn’t actually make the trains run on time. No creativity needed to…
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Why it’s an endless churn
The endless search for an organizational handle on the market – that is, rational structures to deal with the irrational – coupled with managers’ ambitions and what I shall call their mobility panic, fuel a never-ending succession of personnel changes, marked by intense personal rivalries, in virtually all big corporations. —Moral Mazes This books keeps…
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