April 2008
16 posts
“But far and away the biggest source of waste in software development is extra...”
– Excerpt from Principle 1: “Eliminate Waste” of Implementing Lean Software by Mary & Tom Poppendieck.
Tony Blair caught without a ticket, and then... →
Former prime minister Tony Blair was left red-faced when he was caught travelling on a Heathrow Express train on Wednesday without a ticket and said he had no cash to pay the fare.
“Being good is a particularly useful strategy for making decisions in complex...”
– Paul Graham’s Be Good
“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone...”
– retrospectives.com
Urgency is poisonous - (37signals) →
4-day week is as productive as 5-day week (especially when your morale is high).
Workplace Experiments - (37signals) →
4-day week.
My patch for hooking into Rake Tesk tasks →
Complaint-Free Iterations →
Freedom from Command & Control: Rethinking... →
“Command and Control is failing us. There is a better way to design and manage work - a better way to make work work - but it remains unknown to the vast majority of managers.”
Self Organizing Teams are Superior to Command n'... →
“Lower costs and increase performance: Baggage handling control includes security...”
– Baggage handling control from IBM - Technical details
“Your baggage handling system must be able to efficiently handle the volumes of...”
– Baggage handling control from IBM - Technical Details
“test automation created by a siloed QA team working in isolation to...”
– Elisabeth Hendrickson: Effective Test Automation Isn’t Created in a Vacuum
I Will CC Your Boss On This Email →
The Tweaking CC; conflict in email →
“UAVs allow scientists to reach the parts others cannot reach – the future of...”
– My mate, Phil Anderson from the British Antarctic Survey.