Comments on: Business process and … reincarnation? http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/01/29/the-most-spiritual-business-book-ive-encountered/ not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dunrie http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/01/29/the-most-spiritual-business-book-ive-encountered/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Dunrie Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:09:27 +0000 http://scientificink.com/blog/?p=96#comment-96 Thanks for your note. You know, I tried to read The Deadline but...couldn't get through it. Something about the weirdness of the parable format got in my way. I did enjoy a couple other DeMarco books a colleague loaned me, PEOPLEWARE: Productive Projects and Teams and WHY DOES SOFTWARE COST SO MUCH? And Other Puzzles of the Information Age. He does have a thoughtful and humane perspective. Thanks for the link, I see he's got some other nonfiction titles I should check out, for when I finish EMyth Mastery ;) Thanks for your note. You know, I tried to read The Deadline but…couldn’t get through it. Something about the weirdness of the parable format got in my way.
I did enjoy a couple other DeMarco books a colleague loaned me, PEOPLEWARE: Productive Projects and Teams and WHY DOES SOFTWARE COST SO MUCH? And Other Puzzles of the Information Age. He does have a thoughtful and humane perspective.
Thanks for the link, I see he’s got some other nonfiction titles I should check out, for when I finish EMyth Mastery ;)

]]> By: Mohan Kartha http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/01/29/the-most-spiritual-business-book-ive-encountered/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Mohan Kartha Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:50:29 +0000 http://scientificink.com/blog/?p=96#comment-95 I'm interested to hear more of your opinion of the E-Myth Mastery as you make your way through it. I agree that 400 pages is daunting - I have many books on my shelves in that category that I havn't managed to finish - I admire your ambition. As to "concrete recommendations for systems and practices to consider and implement" - if you havn't already read it, I'd suggest The Deadline by Tom DeMarco - although now somewhat dated with respect to the Agile/XP meethodology it is a book that does provide some very specific advice on measuring and improving team development methods. I suspect the only problem with this particular advice is that it can be difficult to implement and you definitely need to pick and choose the methods that will match each new challenge. http://systemsguild.com/GuildSite/TDM/Deadline.html BTW> I enjoyed meeting you at A2B3 some weeks ago - I look forward to running into you again. I’m interested to hear more of your opinion of the E-Myth Mastery as you make your way through it. I agree that 400 pages is daunting – I have many books on my shelves in that category that I havn’t managed to finish – I admire your ambition.

As to “concrete recommendations for systems and practices to consider and implement” – if you havn’t already read it, I’d suggest The Deadline by Tom DeMarco – although now somewhat dated with respect to the Agile/XP meethodology it is a book that does provide some very specific advice on measuring and improving team development methods. I suspect the only problem with this particular advice is that it can be difficult to implement and you definitely need to pick and choose the methods that will match each new challenge.
http://systemsguild.com/GuildSite/TDM/Deadline.html

BTW> I enjoyed meeting you at A2B3 some weeks ago – I look forward to running into you again.

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