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7 Reasons Why You Should Tackle Hard Problems Last

I always hear the advice that we should tackle hard problems first. It seems like pretty legitimate advice, and many of the reasons for saying so make sense,...

10 replies - 4070 views - 03/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Project Management: A Malady

Contrary to popular myth, Project Management is not a job, a profession or a career path. It is an illness, a disorder characterized by delusion, specifically...

0 replies - 1491 views - 02/24/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 301 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Embrace Your Inner Mad Scientist

Recently I’ve come to value experiments. I value them so much, it seems all I’m doing is experimenting. That’s no coincidence: In an agile...

1 replies - 1560 views - 02/22/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

63 Things it Means to Be a Project Manager

Let's face it, being a project manager is not for everyone. We place a truckload of expectations on a project manager and then use an extremely asymmetric...

0 replies - 2081 views - 02/22/13 by Tathagat Varma in Articles

Ineffective Pushback to a Pushy Manager

How do you deal with a manager who believes that a software development team needs to go faster and should be pushed? I want to review some of the responses to...

0 replies - 1196 views - 02/22/13 by Benjamin Mitchell in Articles

An Appropriate Use of Metrics

Management love their metrics. The thinking goes something like this, "We need a number to measure how we’re doing. Numbers focus people and help us measure...

0 replies - 3215 views - 02/20/13 by Patrick Kua in Articles

Bumping Into Manager Rules

You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving. I once worked...

0 replies - 966 views - 02/20/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Sooner or Later: Deliver Early or Minimize Waste

There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that we should do...

0 replies - 2207 views - 02/17/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Ever Have a Bad Manager Day?

I wish I could tell you I never had a bad manager day. I wish I could tell you I never screwed up. Nope, that would be a very tall tale. Here’s a doozy. I...

0 replies - 2411 views - 02/17/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Working with the Product Vision Board

”This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe...

0 replies - 3226 views - 02/16/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles

How to Lead IT Knowledge Workers

I have heard that knowledge workers need a special type of attention compared to blue collar jobs. On the other hand, I have been seen behavior among...

3 replies - 2299 views - 02/14/13 by Chris Shayan in Articles

Single Point of Failure - Don't Expect the Best Solution from One Person

Why it is bad to have a single point of failure in a product and what to do about it. Every day we solve problems. Some people solve many problems, some...

0 replies - 2918 views - 02/13/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

We Can’t Measure Anything in Software Development

Baccarat is an interesting card game that you’ll find at many casinos.  The objective of the game is to correctly predict whether the bank or player...

6 replies - 10547 views - 02/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Have Choices for Their Lifecycles

I hope that by now you see that you have any number of choices for your lifecycle if you are geographically distributed team and you are transitioning to...

0 replies - 1365 views - 02/10/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles