I was thinking about government analogies for software development organizations while I was unclogging our bathroom sink. I originally made this analogy after in this post about the supreme court. But I didn’t make any analogies between the roles of...

Over the last week I went from not knowing about a new technological movement to seeing it everywhere and becoming a believer. Here's the story. I'm something of a data wonk. On, my desk you'll find a copy of the economist book of facts and figures. I...

I recently bought my wife an Amazon Kindle for Christmas. Yes, I know it's March but they were backordered. But at least this way I was able to give the Kindle two. Anyway, she loves it. The thing that's striking about it and the reason I am writing this...

One of my favorite theorems is Bayes' theorem . (There, I admit it. I'm a geek.) At its heart, Bayes' theorem is a way to update a probability estimate with new information. Say for instance you hear that there is a one in ten chance of rain today. Later...

I've been posting some highly abstract theories for project management and effectiveness. Well, actually there are even a level removed from that. They are more like analogies for theories. I'll probably still have one of those kinds of posts every once...

9:17 AM One counter intuitive rule of economics is that a country shouldn't allocate its resources based on how productive it is relative to other countries but rather relative to other things that country could do with those resources. For example...