silk and spinach

John Brothers has posted the latest edition of the Carnival, entitled I’m running late. This is a perennial topic for all software development projects, and doubly so for those of us who take a lean or TOC view of productivity and change, so props to John for bringing that focus to the carnival this time around.

Speaking of TOC, one recent post that escaped John’s attention is Multi-Tasking: Why projects take so long and still go late by Kevin Fox. Every time I work in a large organisation I find myself writing about multi-tasking – and wondering why “common sense” is so rare…