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Taco-Driven Development

We try to have fun together at Famigo.  Every Wednesday we have Taco Twednesday, in which we all leave the office to eat at and review various taco...

0 replies - 2874 views - 01/14/13 by Cody Powell in Articles

Karma and Team Management - My Experience at Cerebrata

In this post about my journey with Cerebrata, I will talk about team management (erstwhile known as Human Resource Management or at times in India as Personnel...

1 replies - 2526 views - 01/11/13 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

Are you listening?

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Maybe we can learn an awful lot from Emerson's words. And maybe we...

0 replies - 983 views - 01/10/13 by Chris Spagnuolo in Articles

I Made a Lot of Money, and It Made Me Very Happy

The year 2012 was (financially) my best year ever. The sum of revenue on courses, workshops, presentations, royalties, product sales, licenses, and house...

0 replies - 2531 views - 01/07/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

Why Great Teams Build Great Products

The software development process can be a complicated tango of deadlines, constraints, and expectations. Knowing this, companies must have an increased...

0 replies - 5443 views - 12/02/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

A Retrospective of an Unproductive Day

Last night I was going to bed thinking “Man, I accomplished nothing today! What a waste.” But then I stopped feeling bad (and became awesome...

1 replies - 6351 views - 11/08/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Boss to Employees: Don't Work Too Hard

 As far as I know, the bold suggestion of recommending 40 hours working per week came from the XP community through the practice of Sustainable pace. ...

0 replies - 9135 views - 11/08/12 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

What Makes a Great Operations Leader?

I've posted a few times about the posts by John Allspaw and this is another instance where I admire what he wrote and think it's worth quoting a few...

0 replies - 3847 views - 10/30/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

Making Training Transferable: Or, How Sheep Are Not Like Spreadsheets

Think back to the last training course you signed up for that was aimed at changing the culture of your work environment, such as Agile, Lean or Scrum:...

0 replies - 1394 views - 08/24/12 by Laura M. Waite ... in Articles

My take on Utility and Strategic software

Recently, Jez Humble examined the Utility/Strategic dichotomy defined by Martin Fowler, to find out where the continuous delivery concept applies best. Here is...

0 replies - 2778 views - 06/18/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Validation Through Rejection

This is the wrong way to go about product focus: I’d rather use a service that has a strong, single-minded vision, even if some of the decisions aren’t...

1 replies - 4795 views - 06/10/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Serious About Your Software Career? Leave your job

Just a few months back, I resigned my position as senior software engineer and technical lead for a middleware services group at Wells Fargo. The job was...

7 replies - 21544 views - 05/23/12 by Christian Posta in Articles

Developer Productivity is Important - Reality or Myth?

A while back, I read a post by Rob Conery in which he discussed both his thoughts on developer productivity in relation to the creation of a new...

0 replies - 7976 views - 04/16/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

DZone Top Article of 2011: Ask DZ - What's the best programming advice you've ever got?

For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it...

23 replies - 22530 views - 01/18/12 by John Esposito in Articles

15 Tenets For The Software Engineer

Many people talk about the things a software engineer needs to know in order to be successful in their job. Other people talk about the traits needed to be...

1 replies - 9381 views - 11/20/11 by Robert Diana in Articles