I’ve now been writing this blog for eleven 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: May, 2018).
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.
- Deconstruction of a #NoEstimates presentation
- Some timeless IT/tech jokes, and why they’re still relevant
- Novels of IT, Part 3: Adventures of an IT Leader
- Simple, more practical approaches to actual resource allocation
- The case against #NoEstimates, part 1: introduction and common sense
- The case against #NoEstimates, part 3: NoEstimates arguments and their weaknesses
- Stop letting people “just wing it” at work
- Towards a more balanced list of content about #NoEstimates
- The case against #NoEstimates, part 2: why estimates matter
- Career tips for the CTO/CIO path
- The title issue: CTO vs CIO, and why it’s the wrong question
- Hiring and firing: an example of a stellar employee
- Starting points: downloadable tools for the quantitative CTO/CIO
- Why status reports really do matter
- Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms!
- The case against #NoEstimates: the bottom line
- Cringeworthy comments overheard in the IT trenches: the developers
- More timeless, still-relevant information technology jokes
- IT extremism strikes again: the odd resistance to bug tracking
- A rational CapEx purchase and tracking process for IT
- Using feedback loops to improve IT department service
- Lazy thinking: IT shibboleths, sloganeering, and sacred cows
- Novels of IT: The Phoenix Project
- Novels of IT, Part 2: Haunting the CEO
- “Astounding IT sayings”: the inaugural post
