You're running late, and not just a little late. You throw your bag under the table and boot up your PC. “Hi! Sorry I’m so late! You say hello to Jeremy, Audrey, and Farid. Audrey says: “Maria came by. She was looking for you.” “Did she say what for?” Hmmm - ‘I’m waiting for an action plan. I don't see anything coming. I'm worried’ “OK” Not OK. This action plan that Maria is waiting for has been spinning in your head for over a week…

The Eye-Brain Law: To a certain extent, mental power can compensate for observational weakness. The Brain-Eye Law: To a certain extent, observational power can compensate for mental weakness. Jerry Weinberg "I received your email. I get what you want to do. But, what's the goal?" Comfortably secured in a state-of-the-art ergonomic seat, and protected by a natural fortification of edible, combustible, destructible, fungible, flexible, securely-fixed, decay-prone, sensitive and transmissible elements, Mazare observes both you and Jeremy. Jeremy answers, "We would like to analyze the lead…

Since practical computation demands that implicit assumptions be brought out into the open, it is no coincidence that computer programmers are attracted to an approach devoted to studying how people make assumptions. -- Gerald Weinberg. number: 4240 date: 08/29/2017 status: in progress type: bug severity: serious submitter: C. COURDEL nature: partial budget carry forward does not work description: I skip the budgeted year, perform a partial carryover, option: without exceeding, I submit the form, nothing happens! Owner : _ Resolution status: _ You've just opened…

The treatment of error as a source of valuable information is precisely what distinguishes the feedback (error-controlled) system from its less capable predecessors. Jerry Weinberg @OlegTxl Direct Message Hi Oleg, can you spare me an hour of your time? ok, around 6pm? ping me (...) ping pong Thanks Oleg. I would like some advice about mob programming for my project at work OK I was given three months to turn the situation around on the app I'm working on situation ==? we have to deliver…

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. Russell Ackoff A chat window opens at the bottom right. Maria: come to see me when you can for 15 minutes today pls. You save your work, answering: I'm coming. You grab something to write with.…