Hardware design / development has had Muntzing since the 1940’s. How about importing the idea into software design / development?
Could this facilitate the spread of #NoSoftware?
Or are programmers too self-indulgent to cut out much of their crap?
In case you missed it:
May I invite you to consider the merits of an entirely new frame of reference for software delivery?
Y’all may like to know that Ian Carroll (of Solutioneers fame) and I are launching a new venture named TheQuintessentialGroup, offering a range of services in the software delivery space. First out of the gate will be “Quintessential Teams“. You can find out more at our shiny new website: TheQuintessentialGroup.com.
Note: We’re looking to revolutionise the world of software delivery, along quintessential lines, and we’d love for you to consider joining us.
Back in 1996 we* found ourselves with the opportunity to demonstrate what we had been telling clients for years – that our** approach to software delivery was way more productive than:
a) the industry norm
b) their current approaches
c) what they could ever believe possible
*myself and some colleagues at the Java Centre within Sun Microsystems UK, along with some mutual friends.
**the company we named “Familiar”.
Now, we*** find ourselves in the same situation once again. Our**** approach to software delivery is again way more productive than:
a) the industry norm
b) our clients’ current approaches
c) what our clients and prospects could ever believe possible
***Ian Carroll and myself
****the company we’re naming TheQuintessentialGroup
The first time around, commencing circa 1996, our approach could be described as an Agile approach (Scrum-like, albeit risk-based).
The second time around our – distinctly different – approach can be described as the Quintessential approach (nothing like Agile, Scrum, etc. – albeit still very risk-oriented).
And this second time around, we again lead the industry in breaking the mould and demonstrating the validity and sheer awesome power of the Quintessential approach.
The Quintessential approach is no secret. It’s all laid out, in detail, in my book(s). And yet we defy anyone to replicate this game-changing alien tech. At least, until they have thrown off the shackles of outmoded and crippling beliefs about work and how work should work.
And that ain’t likely to happen any time soon. Although TheQuintessentialGroup.com can help with effecting such changes, too – see my book Memeology, for starters.
If you’re at all interested in the quality, cost, timescales, and predictability of software delivery, you might like to take a look at our newly launched website: TheQuintessentialGroup.com. We have big ambitions and big plans – and we’re hiring too!
Yes there’s more than a little déjà vu here at Sensei Towers at the moment. Familiar was an outstanding success, vindication, trailblazer and golden goose back in the late 90’s. We have every expectation that TheQuintessentialGroup will surpass even that outstanding benchmark.
Putting a dent in the Universe.
– Bob
Marshall, R.W. (2021). Quintessence: An Acme for Software Development Organisations. [online] leanpub.com. Falling Blossoms (LeanPub). Available at: https://leanpub.com/quintessence/ [Accessed 22 Apr. 2022].
Marshall, R.W. (2021). Memeology: Surfacing And Reflecting On The Organisation’s Collective Assumptions And Beliefs. [online] leanpub.com. Falling Blossoms (LeanPub). Available at: https://leanpub.com/memeology/ [Accessed 22 Apr. 2022].
Marshall, R.W. (2018). Hearts over Diamonds: Serving Business and Society Through Organisational Psychotherapy. [online] leanpub.com. Falling Blossoms (LeanPub). Available at: https://leanpub.com/heartsovediamonds/ [Accessed 22 Apr. 2022].
In a previous life, I was charge with leading a whole passel of software and product developers. To help create an environment where they might wish to up their game, I proposed and launched a new community called “The Inklings”. I attach the proposal and launch announcement hereunder, for your delectation/misery.
NB These two documents have been edited/redacted/dates and names changed, to protect the innocent.
If you’re wondering how it went: I left the company shortly after, and no one took it forward.
– Bob
“Back at the start of the personal computer revolution in the 1970s, entrepreneurs were motivated by making great products, and money was a side benefit. Today, startups are all about the money, and great products are a side benefit, and not really necessary for success at all.”
~ Alan Cooper
“Labor Day marks [the workers’] historic defeat, not [their] triumph.”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/labor-day-may-first-american-labor-movement-haymarket/
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