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 - 8999 views - 11/08/12 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles
Tomorrow is the general election day in the USA. If you've seen any of the debates or the rhetoric leading up to this year's election you've...
1 replies - 32006 views - 11/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
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 - 3739 views - 10/30/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles
Office space is something many companies don’t get.
Sure, you should have a wide table, a comfortable chair and a fast
workstation. But that is not the...
6 replies - 6177 views - 10/09/12 by Michael Dubakov in Articles
There is a common belief in the software
development world that a tradeoff exists between speed of delivery and
quality, an idea Martin Fowler calls the...
1 replies - 7459 views - 10/07/12 by Kief Morris in Articles
Published over 6 years ago "Software Estimation" by Steve McConnell is a great read.
As a practitioner of the agile arts I must say in...
0 replies - 6632 views - 09/25/12 by Frank Kelly in Articles
Do you agree with the majority opinions in the developer community? Or are you an outsider with more radical opinions? Maybe you just want to see what the...
4 replies - 15247 views - 09/07/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program.
They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing
quality quality code is...
4 replies - 24557 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles
I listen to audio books while I work out. I've been known to leave earworms 'Rapid Italian' on while trying to go to sleep. I read books on trains. I answer...
1 replies - 12804 views - 06/10/12 by Jay Fields in Articles
Last night I was invited to go along to the Facebook offices in
London and attend a tech talk on how Facebook do release engineering and
automated...
0 replies - 11257 views - 04/20/12 by James Betteley in Articles
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 - 7900 views - 04/16/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles
Part of my job is hiring people to build websites for
advertising clients. Most of the things that we build don’t compete with
brain surgery...
8 replies - 10337 views - 04/10/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles
It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the...
0 replies - 6026 views - 04/08/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles
I am and always will be a student of leadership & design. I like
to see things work, but I like it more when things work a little better
or a little...
1 replies - 6538 views - 03/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles
A few weeks ago a slide deck from an Esther Derby presentation on retrospectives
was doing the rounds on twitter and one thing that I found interesting...
0 replies - 1622 views - 01/25/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
