I am Paul Wilson; Mere Complexities Limited, sells my consulting, coaching, and coding services. I am passionate about Agile, particularly Test Driven Development.
All diets work
I've never tried any myself, but I've noticed that most diets come with success stories. I've even known people who've been on various
fad diets and lost lots of weight - while they stuck to them. My theory is that some of the success is just down to thinking about what you're eating.
I'd been meaning to post my "diet theory" for a while, tying it to (nearly) all software methodologies work, as long as you stick to them. However I've just noticed that
Craig Larman has already made exactly the same point!
Dracula
Some of the places I find inspiration are a bit odd. This passage has been echoing in my head during the past week or so.
when in what Mr. Morris would call a 'tight place,' he went back to his own country from the land he had tried to invade, and thence, without losing purpose, prepared himself for a new effort. He came again better equipped for his work, and won.
Energised Work
A while back I was in the middle of a programming contract, firmly embedded in the waterfall and associated "blame culture". Someone asked on a work night out whether my long terms plans were in IT: he was (is) trying to get into medicine. I was surprised to find that I was no longer sure. I certainly wasn't enjoying that contract a great deal and I could tell that the project was heading for trouble - what was worse was there did not seem a great deal that I could do about it. I think I evaded the question.
What turned my attitude round was booking on Agile courses and conferences. My
CSM course rekindled my enthusiasm, and I've kept it going by attending various other Agile events such as the
Poppendieck's Glasgow course,
XPDay London, and of course
Agile Scotland and
XP Wednesday meetings. It's especially good to hear all the XP and Scrum success stories from attendees at these events. Pretty close to Kathy Sierra's advice
here.
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