Nader K. Rad articles on project management
Recently, I discovered a list of open source software tainted by LLM/AI use . It lists those that allow the use of AI-assisted development and suggests alternatives to them. Why would someone avoid software that allows AI-assisted development? There are many reasons, from technical to ethical, but the most important one to me that I don't see mentioned anywhere is this: The initial time and effort…
We constantly see different variations of "just build it, you can make it better later" on LinkedIn and other places dedicated to recycling cliches. Normally, the writer is a CLUMS (short for cliche-loving, unimaginative, mindless soul) who labels the opposite approach as perfectionist and rejects it on that grounds. In practice, what CLUMS has in mind and rejects is not perfect , but only…
Note: This article is unlisted on the web and only published for people who follow the RSS feed of the website. There's been too many AI articles in Hacker News recently, and it's become so boring that I was thinking about removing Hacker News from my RSS reader, Newsboat . Then, I suddenly remembered something I had read in Newsboat's manual a long time ago: the possibility to filter out…
This is how a platform, such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon, becomes enshitifid : At the beginning, they are good to their end users , but try to lock them in. Then, they abuse their end users for the sake of business users . Finally, they abuse both the end users and business users for their own short-term profit , and leave everyone else a pile of shit. This model describes how tech platforms…
Are you one of those people who calls it a Zoom meeting instead of an online meeting ? If so, please don't, because it's harmful to us as consumers, and it's not great for your reputation. Problem 1 The main problem is that when you use the term "Zoom meeting" to mean "online meeting", you're giving too much power to Zoom, as if it's the only way of having a proper online meeting. What's wrong…
Today, the final version of the 8th edition of the PMBOK Guide was published. Its draft was published about 11 months ago , when I wrote an article about the good and the bad of that update. My opinion about the draft was that it was neither too good nor too bad . So, what has changed since then? I had pointed out 12 bad things about the draft. I'm afraid to say only 2 of them are adjusted. (Yes,…
Tom, Dick, and Harry really love AI and spend a lot of time daily posting comments on LinkedIn telling people about it. Although, their comments are usually written by AI, and the audience doesn't really understand how they relate to the topic. Let's take a closer look at these three lovely people. Tom Tom is the simplest of all: he doesn't have any benefit in promoting AI. He keeps talking about…