I’ve now been writing this blog for nine years now, with more than 120 full-length essays posted so far. It often surprises me which posts are the most read; here’s the current top 25 posts over just the past year. I’ll update this list from time to time, so that you can see what’s currently in the lead. (Last updated: July, 2016).
For a view of the top 25 over the full course of the nine years, including short descriptions for each, you can reference the “top 25 posts” category page, here.
- Simple, more practical approaches to actual resource allocation
- The case against #NoEstimates, part 1: introduction and common sense
- Some timeless IT/tech jokes, and why they’re still relevant
- Towards a more balanced list of content about #NoEstimates
- Stop letting people “just wing it” at work
- The case against #NoEstimates, part 2: why estimates matter
- The case against #NoEstimates: the bottom line
- The case against #NoEstimates, part 3: NoEstimates arguments and their weaknesses
- Cringeworthy comments overheard in the IT trenches: the developers
- Lazy thinking: IT shibboleths, sloganeering, and sacred cows
- Novels of IT, Part 3: Adventures of an IT Leader
- Career tips for the CTO/CIO path
- IT extremism strikes again: the odd resistance to bug tracking
- The perils of a new CTO position
- IT and baseball: no silver heuristics
- Starting points: downloadable tools for the quantitative CTO/CIO
- Business impact and transparency: expressing system availability
- Hiring and firing: an example of a stellar employee
- No silver bullets. Really!
- The title issue: CTO vs CIO, and why it’s the wrong question
- The title issue revisited: CTO vs. CIO
- The Practical CIO: Difficulties in project prioritization & selection, part 2
- The One True Way syndrome exemplified: the overstated case against code comments
- The CIO and the fine art of vendor negotiation
- Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms!
