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Dilbert, Galbraith & conventional wisdom
I received and started reading The Affluent Society this week and although I still reserve my opinion on the book, the first chapter is so great I thought it is worth writing up. As someone who has...
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Lean & Agile: Are they worth the effort?
This is a follow-up to Lean v. Agile. Most of what I read about Agile and Lean is coherent and relatively believable, but I still can’t get rid of a feeling that there is something wrong. When I dug...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lean’s Cost & Benefit
Apologies for slacking off from blogging, but there has been too many things to do. On the positive side, I had plenty of time to think about, think through and then re-think some of the ideas I...
View ArticleReading notes - value of social computing
I need to re-learn to write shorter and more frequent posts, so here comes a shorter piece, while I am working on the continuation of my post on Lean. I spent two years working for a extremely...
View ArticleSocial Computing Case Studies
In the last post I asked a (rhetorical) question about case studies for social computing software. I had a quick look around to answer my own question, and in fact I found quite a few of them. Most...
View ArticleUnintended consequences
Some fun thought experiments combining few EconPapers: Aral, Brynjolfsson & Van Alstyne found out that “asynchronous information seeking such as email and database use promotes multitasking while...
View ArticleAlt.Lean
(…continued from Deconstructing Lean’s costs and benefits) I like Lean’s coherence and its focus on methods of achieving business change, but I have some doubts about applicability of its mainstream...
View ArticleTroubles with the domain
There is a small possibility that this website will soon disappear. I bought the domain several years ago from a small reseller of domain registration services and unfortunately that company went out...
View ArticleAgile - when does it work well
Lean and Agile are often mentioned in the same sentence and many people assume they are similar. Admittedly, there is an overlap between the two methods – mostly in their focus on pull scheduling,...
View ArticleDogmas in Modern Architecture
As someone who grew up in a town whose large parts were designed by Le Corbusier, I was interested to find how ideals shaping modern architecture led to disregard for practical considerations of its...
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