positive and negative about people

Delivering value is taken as read, everyone understands that if you’re not delivering value then the company’s not making a profit, and so they won’t have any money to pay you. If you want value you need to make sure not only that you understand what you’re doing but the guy who needs you to do it, or the people who need you to do, do too.

For me, lots of projects have some degree of grind or frustration or irritation. There’s not one project I could point to and say that was just delicious through and through. I think Agile sets out to solve a big bunch of problems, but I think there’s something underlying that set of problems. There’s something about western culture that trains them not to do certain things. If I do something that of that smell or feel, there’ll be a big wrongness coming my way. People slowly learn not to do certain things.