Tag: Way-of-the-Tortoise
What Easy Costs
I was working for KFC, in a leadership role, when during the stand-up a problem came up. I had previously worked extens...A Surprisingly Small Change
In the very early days of megabus, with the database server under heavy load, and the primary bottleneck, I'd cobbled t...It Gets Everywhere
In 1999, I was building websites in ASP (before there was .NET) and MSSQL Server. We had a Windows NT server that I had...Journey or Destination
Everybody in India was seemingly learning to be a software engineer in the 2000's. They were super expensive, made a lo...Going fast vs Going far
Aesop wrote us wonderful and valuable fables. Almost all of us know the one about the tortoise and the hare - that slow...Agile, the hope killer!
Two weeks into mapping out a project, I realised that we'd underestimated the lead-time. We'd have to push for overtime...