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"organizations which design systems [...] are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." Conway, 1968.
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"every application must have an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it." Tesler, mid-1980s.
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"Burn-up and -down charts: useful for measuring progress if there are tangible, non-expanding intermediate milestones. And iceberg lists: something added to the current iteration pushes an existing story beneath the waterline."
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First solicitors over legal aid reform, now magistrate court staff over the sub-inflationary pay rise: ongoing staffing woe for the Home Office in criminal justice.
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Danah Boyd on the risks of persistent, unontrollable presence: "The problem is that people really, really love stalking,"
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Critics say a gigantic tower at Gazprom city will "kill the city". I'm not so sure - it's a city that already has extraordinary scale both horizontally and vertically (particularly underground) already.
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"Reverse salients" in business: the weakest link that's holding up progress. Problems rarely stay solved for long.
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The Crucifixion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race.
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Physicist Richard Feynman once said that if all knowledge about physics was about to expire the one sentence he would tell the future is that "Everything is made of atoms". What would we say about our areas?
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"Nakamatsu: photographed and analyzed every meal for 34 years" - the only person who's photographed more food than Chris Antimega Heathcote.
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Self revealed that he liked to organise his hikes so that they ended at a meeting or assignment. "'How was your journey?' they enquire. 'About 10 hours,' I admit. 'I walked here.'"
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"This project offered the free use of disposable cameras to every member of the Royal Mail. Hundreds took him up on the offer, and as a result, Gill painstakingly reviewed over 30,000 images to end up with the best of the best."
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Agree fixed price, then convert to daily rate, then use the rate to allow flexibility.
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"Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something. [...] Software development is a cooperative game of invention and communication"
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Judd's cast-iron framed building.
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Films about businesses. No Office Space, 9 to 5, All The President's Men, but a start.
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