Monthly Archives: July 2010

11
Jul

Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing…

Published by adil in Entrepreneurship Reply

Tweet So, I have been in social situations with fellow managers and have brought up the topic of group development and the model of ‘storming, norming, and performing,’ and no one knew what I was talking about.  So I figure it’s a fun topic to blog about. ModCloth has been growing our San Francisco presence very rapidly.  When I first got here in March, it was just me.  Literally.  Today, about 3 months later, we → Read More

5
Jul

Creative and engineering .. how different are they?

Published by adil in Creative, Development Reply

Tweet I often hear practitioners in creative fields (such as photography, design, and writing) and engineering fields (such as development, QA, systems, infrastructure) talk about how different they are from the other group.  This is sometimes in reference to processes from the other camp that ‘won’t work here’ or in reference to a frustrating experience that leaves people wondering how they could be so different from one another. In either case, this is a topic → Read More

1
Jul

Focusing on architectural debt

Published by adil in Development Reply

Tweet My last few posts introduced technical debt and then explained what you should do about it.  This recent theme hasn’t completely satisfied my desire write about the topic because I think there is a lot more to this ‘debt metaphor’ than most realize.  So I’d like to dig into it a little more here. The commonly understood definition of ‘technical debt’ does not actually describe all aspects of what you might experience in the → Read More