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Align Your Metrics

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

An unusually long link-excavation strikes pay dirt: Greg points through Jorge Aranda to Ed Yourdon who, in the course of an article well worth reading, happens to point to an interview with Linda Rising (also worth your time) at InfoQ. The interview was conducted by Deborah Hartmann, a Toronto-based agile development consultant who co-authored a […]

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Manage or Measure?

Monday, May 28, 2007

One of the rants that has been bubbling in my head for a while is about the current obsession with “metrics” in management circles. I usually blame this on MBA culture, though I must admit that I don’t have direct evidence to blame the business schools. The oft-heard mantra is “If you can’t measure it, […]

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