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Mr. Taiichi Ohno had a theory of nonproductivity that people know but which they do not truly understand. In the image below, Ohno-san makes clear differentiation between the types of work that workers do: work that is...

This is the second post in the 3-part series on busyness. You can read the other two posts here: Busyness 101: Why are we SO BUSY in Modern Life? (7 Hypotheses) Busyness 301: The Future of BUSY, Work &...

This article originally appeared in the Fall 2015 edition of Better Software magazine. In August 2014, I gave a talk attacking ISO 29119” at the Association for Software Testing’s conference in New York. That gave...

Ahh leisure or as some call it, the art and science of doing nothing. It’s something we all want yet rarely have. Our modern workplace culture prides itself on filling every one of our minutes, even if it’s all for...

Everybody seems to be talking about Michael Lewis’s new book (Flash Boys), which has been featured on 60 Minutes and reviewed twice by the New York Times. The book is about something called high-frequency trading,...