Aaron Oliver points out that knowing about the “Pick two” triangle is not as much the issue as what people do with that obvious bit of knowledge. The “triangle,” if you are wondering, is a regular triangle with three named corners: Good, Cheap, Fast. Quite often, when faced with unreasonable demands, project managers/team leaders will draw this triangle on a [...]

I read Nick Halstead’s “10 Reasons Why I hate Recruitment Agents” with interest. I would like to add two more reasons, that I have personally experienced: 1. Asking me to come meet them This is my favourite one. Nick wrote about agents asking to come meet him. I can see why they try to push for a meeting, this makes [...]

I try to make this blog mostly about open-source and management. And I do not necessarily mean “open-source and management” in the same breath. These just happen to be two topics that I live and breathe daily and, as they say: “Write about what you know”. Anyway, today, both worlds collided and you can see the result at http://blog.mootools.net/2007/12/13/an-open-apology-to-the-authors-of-jquery-prototype-and-others I [...]

Funny coincidence: mere days after I decide to re-post my views on open-source, Daniel Robbins, of Gentoo fame, decides to post a late-night rant trying to address the shortcomings of the Gentoo Foundation. More interesting than his original post, though, I enjoyed reading most comments as well as his own answers to these comments. The phrase “Benevolent Dictator” emerges fairly [...]