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SPaMCAST 857 features our interview with Andy Hilliard, CEO of Accelerance and author of Synergea. In this episode, we discuss the future of software development and how global teams fit... Read More
Sen begins Chapter 9 of Development as Freedom with the sentence: “The contemporary age is not short of terrible and nasty happenings, but the persistence of extensive hunger in a... Read More
Consider sailing on a lake. It is a great day, there is only a slight rolling swell to contend with. Because you are so relaxed, you slip below and start... Read More
The idea of agency plays a central role in Chapter 8 of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. The concept of agency is often misunderstood. Paraphrasing Wikipedia (to make it... Read More
The SPaMCAST 855 features my conversation with Khurram Mir. We talked about testing, quality assurance, control, and frameworks. We discussed whether we would still discuss the link between continual schedule... Read More
Chapter 7 of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen, Famines and Other Crises, examines the impact of freedoms and leadership through the lens of famines and other crises. This chapter... Read More
The fun part of reading and then rereading a book is knowing what is to come in Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. I am jumping to Chapter 11 for... Read More
The SPaMCAST 853 features our interview with John Conafay. CEO and Co-Founder of Integrate. John and I talked about program management in complex environments and real-time collaboration. In complex environments... Read More
Opening Chapter 6, Sen asks, “Why bother about the finesse of political freedoms given the overpowering grossness of intense economic needs?” If we wanted to boil the chapter down to... Read More
SPaMCAST 852 features our essay on scaling attention. Seth Godin’s observation that attention doesn’t scale highlights a crucial point: attention, like time, is a finite resource. We often conflate scaling... Read More
