Essays

articles - general essays

	Tales of Fragility Agile or Fragile? These are anecdotes from some of my consulting projects, and will make you wonder how these organizations could make such obvious blunders.
	Agile Culture A brief characterization of what it means to be agile.
	Agile Modeling Vignettes Basic principles to guide you in your transition to agility.
	Retooling your staff into the OO world A brief commentary on how to bring your team into the 21st century--and what to do with those who cannot make the change.
	Honeybees and Spiders A useful metaphor for judging the effectiveness of a development team by the "buzz" of the hive.
	Should OO training include a CASE tool? Combining a tool with learning how to think can set your team up for failure.
	Which First - OO Concepts or OO Language? As a training provider we have very strong recommendations in this area. If you make the wrong decision, you might spend man-years making the corrections.
	How Do You Know If You're Iterating? When you move to an iterative process, it's way too easy to think you are iterating when you are still doing waterfall.
	How is OO different? Learning how to think like an object is not an easy transition for those whose expertise has been built on the procedural paradigm.