How do you get your ideas?
I get a lot of ideas on my way to the office, while on my motorbike. Perhaps Dublin’s traffic and pollution is good for my brain. Or maybe not. At…
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March 14, 2008
Patterns of Systematic Creative Thinking: Extract Concept
As software developers, we love to delve deep into technical matters and write code that delivers value. It's not a big secret, however, that many problems in software originate with…
March 12, 2008
Something Worth Doing
Over the years I have used several productivity approaches, from goal-driven/top-down (e.g. Steven Covey's First-Things-First quadrants) to more reactive/bottom-up (e.g. David Allen's Getting Things Done). I have also used more…
February 14, 2008
Software Developers Are Glorified Translators
A close friend of mine who works as a developer in a geographically distributed team, recently told me, with extreme frustration, that our profession is doomed and it won't be…
February 12, 2008
The Joy of Speaking and the ExpertZone Developer Summit 2008
I'll be back to Stockholm in early April, delivering a talk at one of the main IT conferences in Sweden. For such a technology-centric event, it is quite fascinating to…
February 4, 2008
Code Is Not Art
I just read Brian's post titled "The art of science (or the science of art)", which reminded me of certain discussions I had over dinner at the workshop in South…
January 31, 2008
Celebrating cultural differences
The software architecture workshop in South Africa has come to an end. Spending a few days in a beautiful game resort close to Sun City, I worked closely with a…
January 29, 2008
Looking Backward, Moving Forward
I'm just back from Sweden, where I met several folks from Microsoft and our really good friends and partners at Cornerstone. I really like going to Stockholm as people are…
January 18, 2008
IQ and Creativity in the Big Brother House
There is this common notion of "intelligence" as a largely inherited talent that can be assessed in one hour interview. Do you know your Intelligence Quotient (IQ)? I don't. In…
July 31, 2007
My name is Alexander
Have you ever believed that you could never learn to be creative because inventive people are born with some special ability that ordinary people like you don’t posses? A few…
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July 20, 2007