The Mindset

A friend of mine sent me this article and asked me for my opinion.
The basic premise of the article is simple: if you want to know exactly how a certain tool, technology, or process, improve the productivity of your staff, you cannot just measure how much time it saves. If a certain tool saves […]

In a recent article, Timothy Johnson describes a great technique for voting on ideas that came up in a brainstorming session. His article made me think about recent brainstorming sessions I was part of. Each of them had a different nature, but there was one thing common to all of them. The people who took […]

Being on vacation for the past couple of week got me thinking. Well, frankly, it was that and a bunch of other things. Anyway, when I’m thinking… I’m writing. The result is a new blog called Decaf.
What is it about? Well, I’m not sure yet, but generally it is about our life and how […]

A couple of days ago I came across this article about Google’s new headquarters. Judging from its del.icio.us popularity chances are you did as well.
Obviously, it is amazing (at least for an outsider browsing the picture). I’m sure that in reality it makes an even stronger impression. The vivid colors, the open spaces combined with […]

I was staring at my TV set to relax for a while. I had to clear my head no matter what the cost. Staring at some meaningless TV program seemed like a reasonable price to pay.
Anyway, I was so into clearing my head, that I found myself staring at an endless sequence of commercials as […]

Every once in a while I am involved in a discussion about optimization vs. creativity in the software development process. Most of these discussions are very passionate.  They always start with a concrete idea for optimizing the development process in one way or another, and they usually end up with the all-time favorite “it will stand […]

I’ve just finished refining the QualityAspect.com and Lucid Quality web site design. The primary change was the design of the banner at the top of the page.
As I always do, I’ve asked some of my friends for feedback on the new design. I almost never receive a simple one word feedback. the comments are […]

This is a not a blog about hardware. Still, I can’t help sharing my admiration to this (when-will-I-have-one) keyboard. And despite the fact that this blog is about software quality, I believe we can learn a lot from this piece of art.
Quality and creativity are closely related. Both are abstract concepts, which are hard […]

A couple of days ago I was thinking about a design problem. I was working on designing a fictional product for an upcoming design workshop I was creating. Since I usually try to create a notion of a real-world problem in my workshops, I had come up with the requirements for this fictional product, and […]