Slow the Flow
Recently, I've been appalled at a stated software development management strategy: slow down your development. To aid slowness, perhaps we could:
1. Pair keyboarding
2. Use Windows
3. In addition to kickoff and handoff, add halftime shows to stories
4. Left-hand only days
5. No hotkeys days
6. Triple programming
7. Switch roles: dev and dba, designer and qa
8. No IDE days, or better yet, use Eclipse
9. Do spikes on interesting, yet inapplicable things
10. Stay home and mow our lawns
11. Alternate foosball between every step of the dev process
12. Downgrade hardware
13. Lower screen resolution
14. Call more meetings
15. Naps (made better with cups of cheerios and water)
16. Spray Endust upside down around your desk
17. Afternoon LAN parties
With all this fun, one might ask why we didn’t think of going slower sooner.