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Mike Cottmeyer11/13/142072 views
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Agile Smells Versus Agile Zombies in the Uncanny Valley
I don’t like to use the term smell. I prefer to say that you’re in “the valley”. I’m referring to the uncanny valley. When something looks and moves almost, but not exactly, like a healthy person, it causes a response of revulsion among some observers. To that, I believe there is an Agile uncanny valley and it’s full of Agile zombies.
Mike Cottmeyer11/12/14596 views
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Agile Assessments - A Deeper Dive
In my previous post Agile Assessments, I wrote about reasons to do an assessment and considerations when doing one. In this post, I’ll continue the assessment topic with focus on Rating Scales and Frequency.
Johanna Rothman11/12/14675 views
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Five Tips for Tactical Management
Sometimes, you just need to get on with the work. You need to give yourself some breathing room so you can think for a while. Here are some tips that will help you tackle the day-to-day management work:
Bob Hartman11/12/14612 views
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Agile Homeschool Update
Last year, I wrote about how we use an agile approach for homeschool. Since then, we’ve refined our approach. This school year, we updated our board to reflect some of those changes.
Jakub Holý11/12/14322 views
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Tiny, Tiny Steps – Experience Report Developing A Feature In Minimal Value-Adding Increments
A post for those who want to see what an iterative, MVP-driven development of a feature looks like.
Mike Bushong11/11/141191 views
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Conformity as an inhibitor to strategy
Our hard-wired need to conform flies against our desires to be different an innovative. As you consider strategy, you should make sure that you are not subconsciously shackling your ideas to the rest of the industry. But the good news is that because conformity is so popular, the few that are able to get past it end up in a remarkably powerful position.
Allan Kelly11/10/142038 views
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#NoProjects/#BeyondProjects: A Developer Footnote
During the post-conference drinks I was chatting with a developer - Matt from New Zealand if my memory serves - and he came out with what some might think was a surprising comment. He said: “I’d never thought of a project like that before.”
Paul Hammant11/10/142954 views
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The Pervasive Inbox
Email is older than the web, and it’s way past due for an improvement. We want to see JavaScript turned on in email packages. I feel that is inevitable, and it’d be nice to have a product that can immediately take advantage when that happens.
Rob Galanakis11/10/146116 views
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If you hear "perception is reality" you're probably being screwed
I was once told in a performance review that “perception is reality.” I was infuriated, and the words stuck in my mind as the most toxic thing a manager could say to an employee. Let me tell you what “perception is reality” means, and why you should plan on leaving your job the moment you hear it:
Benjamin Ball11/10/14951 views
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The Best of the Week (Oct 31): Agile Zone
Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the Agile Zone (October 31 - November 07). This week's topics include working culture, technical debt, engineering humor, dialogue sheets, and career planning.
Ayende Rahien11/09/145825 views
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Career Planning: Disaster Recovery
One of the more important things that you have to remember is that you should always be ready for failure. As developers, we are used to thinking about stuff like that in our code, but this is true for real life as well.
Rob Galanakis11/06/147098 views
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Technical Debt Takes Many Forms
Most people are familiar with “technical debt” in terms of code or architectural problems that slow down development. There are other forms of technical debt, though, that can be overlooked.
Erich Styger11/06/1410201 views
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Engineering Joke of the Week: The Tunnel
I’m a believer that engineers not only need to act in a professional and ethical way, but they have to have a sense of humor too. For that reason I have the tradition to tell my class (almost) every semester week a joke or fun story with an engineering background. I have been asked to share the fun story from this week, so here we go...
Paul Hammant11/05/141592 views
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Presenting on Trunk-based Development at the Perforce MERGE Conference
This was a month ago at Perforce’s MERGE 2014 conference, but the videos are up now, so you can watch it too. Of many case studies that I have, I detailed one where a hedge-bet on the order of releases paid off. Not that the client knew they were hedge-betting at the outset, that’s just the reality of Trunk Based Development, Feature Toggles / build switches, and Branch by Abstraction.
Allan Kelly11/05/144395 views
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Dialogue Sheets Update (1 of 2)
It has been a while since I’ve written about Dialogue Sheets here - or indeed anywhere else. So here is a quick update and a request for some guinea pigs - I have ideas for new sheets but I need some teams to try them out.
Ayende Rahien11/04/143066 views
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Career planning: What is your path?
As discussed in the previous post, a lot of developers move to management positions at some point in their careers. Now let's turn this around, instead of asking what is going on in the industry, let’s check what is going on with you. In particular, do you have a career plan at all?
Robert Nyman11/04/142323 views
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The editors I've been using--which one is your favorite?
The other day when I wrote about Vim and how to get started with it, I got a bit nostalgic with the editors I’ve been using over the years. Therefore, I thought I’d list the editors I’ve been using over the years. It would be very interesting and great if you’d like to share in the comments which editor you are using, and why you prefer it! Or with which editor you started your developer career!
Benjamin Ball11/02/144682 views
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The Best of the Week (Oct 24): Agile Zone
Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the Agile Zone (October 24 - October 31). This week's topics include agile contracts, partial commits with Git, experts and professional opinions, prudent alternatives to today's Agile, and an Agile