William C. Wake's Blog: March 2006 Archive

Posted by wwake on March 27, 2006 at 02:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Interesting article in the SD Times - "agile software development processes are in use at 14 percent of North American and European enterprises" and "Another 19 percent of enterprises are either interested in adopting agile or already planning to do so, the survey found."

It's always a little hard to know how to interpret such statistics. I'm pretty sure agile methods aren't being used in 14 to 33% of all projects. And it's hard to know exactly people mean by "we do agile." I'd feel better if the analyst were somebody "anti-agile." But, they did spell it right and that's worth something in Hollywood:)

Origins of the cubicle

Posted by wwake on March 22, 2006 at 05:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tom Peters' blog points to a Fortune article on the origin of cubicles. Suffice it to say that like so many things, the reality didn't quite reach what the vision offered.

A couple interesting quotes:

Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."

and

As Steelcase, Knoll, and Haworth brought their versions to market, they figured out that what businesses wanted wasn't to give employees a holistic experience. The customers wanted a cheap way to pack workers in.

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