Bulldozer00's Blog

I’m passionate about all aspects of software development, including, uh, project management (I really am). Since Esther Derby is an insightful and pragmatic thinker filled with valuable tips, techniques, and methods for successfully executing hairball software projects, I follow her on Twitter. Check out this trio of sequential tweets.

My answer to Esther’s last question is: “It would be great!“. Alas, most managers don’t, or aren’t allowed to, think in terms of systems. Systems thinking isn’t valued in siloed, CCH corpricracies, so managers have no incentive to learn or apply it’s principles and techniques for continuous improvement. In really badly run orgs, it’s too dangerous for one’s career to think or act horizontally in silo-city. It’s too bad, because orgs of people are richly interactive dynamic systems of systems that require constant shepherding to keep every person and every group and every unit aligned and connected.