Frank Knight in his dissertation Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921) made a distinction between risk and uncertainty.  With risk he states you have the ability to project future outcomes on the basis of a probability distribution. In other words, you can estimate the likelihood of a particular event within a reasonably precise confidence interval. This is similar, [...]

Genius, the Modern View is the title of David Brook’s column today in the New York times.   To briefly summarize, the traditional perspective on genius is that on rare occasions very special people are born that because of their genetic disposition naturally behave in qualitatively superior ways. The modern perspective is that the difference between [...]

Recently, a discussion emerged from the Beyond Agile community asking where business analysis and allied concerns such as user experience fit in an Agile development project. Should business analysts be sprinkled in the development team? Should a business analyst team be working a sprint or two ahead to feed the development team?

In my previous post, I provided an example of a non-software project that successfully used traditional project management. Now it’s time to discuss how these same techniques lead to different results, when applied to a software project.