Category Archives: Project Management

Kitchen scheduling and administration

I don’t like TV, but occasionally I get to something that pokes my brain. I am an interested observer of a TV “reality show” called “Gordon’s Kitchen Nightmares“.  Professional chef Gordon Ramsay travels from restaurant to restaurant in order to analyze and (allegedly?) try to fix their troublesome financial issues, generally due to bad managerial [...]

Simple risk management can change your life

It’s always a pleasing experience to change someone’s point of view by introducing him a new, simple concept. When this someone is a friend, the pleasure is even greater. A few days ago I had a conversation with a friend, about how to deal with the uncertainties of life, in particular about employment, marriage and [...]

Lines of code

First, a disclaimer. I just want to play with numbers in this post. Lines of code (LOC) do not mean anything in terms of productivity. They can eventually be used as a rough estimate of the complexity of a project. MacOSX counts more than 80 millions LOC. the Linux kernel a little more than 5 [...]

New books in my bookshelf

I just added two new books in my bookshelf: Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design and The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering. I am currently reading the latter. There are very valid reasons for this book to be a classic. It provides a great description on how real-world project management works, and [...]