Ah, it’s System Demo day, again. Get up early, handle the flurry of activity getting the kids ready, and hop on the first of, often times, four back-to-back, hour-long calls. It may seem like a lot of overhead, but the reality is that System Demos are exciting and generate energy far more than they take it away. The Delivery Teams show the work they’ve done and tie it to the Business Cases we’re focused on during this Program Increment (PI).
The joke is that there are two hard problems in Computer Science, and the one that I find myself trying to solve far too often is the problem of Naming Things. If you really want to know the other (or others, depending on how clever you are) you’ll have to keep reading (or hop over to Google quick, here’s a link: “naming things”). In the meantime, let’s focus on how to completely side-step this issue so we can get on with our day.