The ultimate management sin. It sounds like this should be an easy sin to avoid, but it isn’t. You have some needs of your own as a manager, and these needs may run squarely against your intention to preserve and use wisely the time of the people working under you.

This article is part of the JPA Pitfalls series. JPA makes it really easy to do things the wrong way, and makes it really unintuitive to do things right. In this blog post series I will go over some common JPA pitfalls, and introduce generating IDs.

Separating product features into "Must-haves", "Should-haves", "Could-haves" and "Would-haves" (commonly known as MoSCoW) can provide a great deal of information about how to prioritize work for a new product release.

In his book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland introduces us to the idea and origins of Scrum. He brings us to a time when he was serving as a pilot in the air force during the Vietnam war. They had a clear directive - OODA: observe, orient, decide and act.