Typically, my organizational philosophy is to stabilize team-by-team and organization-by-organization. Ensuring any given area is well on the path to health before moving my focus. I try not to push risks onto teams that are functioning well. You do need to delegate some risks, but generally I think it’s best to only delegate solvable risk. If some

If one believes, as I have argued at many places in this book, that creativity comes from individuals and not from structures or processes, then a central question facing the software manager is how to design structure and process so as to enhance, rather than inhibit, creativity and initiative. Fortunately, this problem is not peculiar to software

descobrir como construir uma cultura criativa sustentável – que levasse de fato, a sério, coisas, como honestidade, excelência, comunicação, originalidade e auto-avaliação, por mais que isso incomodasse – não era uma tarefa única. Era um trabalho de todos os dias, em tempo integral, que eu queria realizar.

My rule of thumb is that any time we impose limits or procedures, we should ask how they will aid in enabling people to respond creatively. If the answer is that they won’t, then the proposals are ill suited to the task at hand.