November 2008
21 posts
“It seemed to me from reading this that applying Toyota’s ideas...”
– Agile/Lean - All or Nothing? by Mark Needham.
“You can’t take the “desserts” of Agile practices like working...”
– Thoughts on the Decline and Fall of Agile by Jeremy Miller.
“In order to prevent conflict of interest, all the goals are defined based on...”
– Goal Driven Retrospective by Fabio Pereira.
“If your organization or team is is striving for continuous improvement, it’s...”
– Did we forget to talk to each other? by Chris Spagnuolo.
“I am convinced (from years of using CI servers on many teams) that not knowing...”
– From The problem with conventional continuous integration servers by Ivan Moore.
“The last two projects that I’ve worked on I’ve been on the project...”
– From Agile: Putting the risk up front by Mark Needham
“As we drive up we’re greeted by an older woman wearing a gardener’s...”
– From JKE Day 2: Saishunkan Cosmetics - Customer Care Trumps a Factory
“Whenever you find a defect, ask why five times to discover the root cause of the...”
– Via Five whys, Part 1: The startup immune system
“As one commenter succinctly put it: the “golden time” of AdSense is over.”
– Via Plenty of Fish Says Scaling for Free Doesn’t Pay
“Traditionally, we associate companies like this [Best Buy] with classic top-down...”
– From an interview of Brad Anderson, CEO of Best Buy, by Peter Hirshberg via Best Buy shows the importance of culture in the modern corporation
“Scrum is really really hard! Doing Scrum well is like quitting a heavy, long...”
– The Decline and Fall of Agile and How Scrum Makes it Hurt More from Agile Advice.
“What frustrates me the most is that this situation is entirely avoidable. In a...”
– The Decline and Fall of Agile by James Shore.
“A useful exercise is to reflect on past projects and think about where problems...”
– Early Pain by Martin Fowler.
“Don’t start a company if you’re not willing to start another one if this one...”
– Venture Hacks
“The Ninety/Ninety Rule
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of...”
– Laws of Software Development by Nat Pryce.
“Hofstadter’s Law
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you...”
– Laws of Software Development by Nat Pryce.
“Gall’s Law
A complex system that works is invariably found to have...”
– Laws of Software Development by Nat Pryce.
“Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative...”
– Definition of DRY from the Pragmatic Programmers.
“There are no best practices. Only better practices.”
– A phrase that Venkat likes to use sums up [Neil Ford’s] view on software religions.
“That’s one of the base assumptions that seems to be very different in our...”
– Extreme Programming vs. Interaction Design - an interview with Kent Beck & Alan Cooper.