Finally moved!

This blog has moved to my own domain: persillie.org.

Thanks for your interest and see you there

GoldMail

May be something useful for marketing stuff.

Train Office

Since starting commuting I often hear people sit in the train and making phone calls as if they were in their office. Private office. They banned smoking in the trains some years ago I wonder if there is any initiative to ban cell phones? (I know some times there are some wagons, but somehow I either never see them or there aren’t on my route.

Project Management, Children and Borders

A thought after a meeting I was attending today.

Do you know the situation, where the release date for your software project gets closer, you are already working overtime and actually you don’t really see how you manage. And even better nobody in the team can actually tell what the chances are. You just know that everybody needs to work even harder. And you do it because you don’t want (the project) to fail. And if you succeed you are proud. Even if you say that the next project need to be different.

But it won’t.

When having children that’s one of the first thing you learn (or you suffer): As long as they don’t fail they do not change. As long as you don’t let them experience the consequences of their behaviour, they don’t stop to misbehave. As long as a no is not a no they don’t believe you. And the longer you wait the harder it is to teach it.

As long as we comply with unrealistic planning, work overtime, get the impossible done things won’t change. Not the next time, not ever. In the long shot not releasing on time once can lead to more satisfying projects. If (and only if) the lessons are learned.

Stadt 2.0

Hyperwerk student launched a project in Basel where one can register to the Stadt 2.0 community. You then get a sticker and are visible as a Stadt 2.0 user. On public billboards on can read and post messages. And a ferryman as a living news server.

Good idea, hope that I manage to register. Really interesting how communication evolves with new media and finally comes back into real life.