January 2010
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planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on...
– Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals - Unlearn Your MBA
After a few iterations, our fear level was actually lower than how we used to...
– Lessons Learned: Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events
Continuous deployment makes releases non-events and checking in code is...
– Lessons Learned: Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events
Harvard Business Review motivates TDD →
Out of instrumental support, progress, interpersonal support, collaboration, and important work: progress was the top motivator by a large margin.
Terralien - What Makes a Good Estimate? →
Good estimates happen to savvy founders, since they set a reasonable time box and then actively engage with the team building the product to simplify and fit the result into the estimate.
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by... →
1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small.
2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains.
3. People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should…
The Boss's Journey: The Path to Simplicity and... →
As psychologist William Schutz explained, “Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple.”
Teaching Magic →
However a world with too much magic and not enough knowledge is very risky and dangerous - ask anyone who weighs the same as a duck.
What did I learn in 2009? →
Reading parody sites like this: http://www.ambysoft.com/certification/ and finally asking awkward questions about Scrum (it’s a very bad sign when no-one will publicly answer a question like “is it…
Agile Certification →
Interested in easy certification? Then you’ve come to the right place. The SCUM Alliance, the founder of the Software Graftsmanship Manifesto, is happy to announce the new SCUM Certified Agile Master…
The Passion of Steve Jobs - Bits Blog -... →
Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year.