The moments when excitement builds throughout the whole team at the delight of discovery and creativity are precious. These moments feel like play rather than...
0 replies - 860 views - 05/18/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
Stupid questions and n00bs - top ten intriguing things you need to do from Øredev Conference on Vimeo.
It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been...
0 replies - 2277 views - 05/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
When I first started writing The Hacker Chick Blog, I was incredibly taken by Kathy Sierra and her Creating Passionate Users blog.
I loved how fun...
0 replies - 1656 views - 05/15/13 by Abby Fichtner in Articles
In my previous post I introduced the <ALT+F> framework. I mentioned how the framework moves withint the MAPE (Measure, Adapt, Plan and...
0 replies - 1642 views - 05/13/13 by Marco Tedone in Articles
This book - Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - is about a great person, about change, about one of the largest bureaucracies and...
0 replies - 6331 views - 05/13/13 by Jakub Holý in Articles
The classic tale of a year-long project finally being delivered only to discover it doesn’t meet the needs of the customer sounds ridiculous in the days of...
1 replies - 5094 views - 05/11/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
Denison “Denny” Bollay is one of the guys at ExperTelligence that crafted the first Interface Builder (IB) and showed Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Jeff...
0 replies - 3460 views - 05/09/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles
In 2009 IBM invited a couple of well-known TV personalities to appear as keynote speakers at an international event. They were interviewed by Scott...
0 replies - 2092 views - 05/07/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
The longer I spend working as an agile coach, the more I find myself in disagreement with Hamlet. To estimate, or not to estimate? That is the question. Out of...
0 replies - 2888 views - 05/02/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
Management is a tough job, done well.
There is an enormous difference between an employee and a manager, besides the obvious difference in pay grade...
0 replies - 952 views - 05/02/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
The average lifespan for a software engineering job is 4 years. Okay, I've never actually seen proof (or contradiction), but that's the general feeling in the...
0 replies - 2819 views - 05/01/13 by Jay Fields in Articles
User stories are great at capturing product functionality. But they
are less suited to describe the user interaction in more detail. This is
where...
0 replies - 1289 views - 04/29/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles
A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code;...
0 replies - 4687 views - 04/29/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
Denouncing multitasking might sound crazy, but let's put some context around the statement. Multitasking made the modern computer a viable solution. The...
0 replies - 3941 views - 04/29/13 by Zac Gery in Articles
“Part-timers just don’t seem to fit in with the team,” a manager
complained recently. “I do everything I can to impress on them the
importance of...
1 replies - 1059 views - 04/26/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
