Some thoughts on what is the “right number of people” to work on an increment of work, and how much a team can do at once: I think a team working on more than one task at once is obviously possible and often appropriate. Probably a person working on more than one task at once is impossible without bad task planning or outright deception. Aside from that…

A friend has encouraged me to start tweeting my thoughts on agile software development. I keep waiting for the "right time", thinking I should refine my content first. This is where my temperament is at odds with my profession. Screw it. Here's something I sent my team tonight: I hate talking to you guys. It's not personal. I hate talking to everyone, except maybe dogs. My lizard brain would love to go hide under a rock all week and just play the piano, or maybe try to code bogosort in awk or Lisp. Maybe eat some pho, too.