”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 - 3270 views - 02/16/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles
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 - 2316 views - 02/14/13 by Chris Shayan in Articles
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 - 2951 views - 02/13/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles
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 - 10597 views - 02/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
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 - 1392 views - 02/10/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
One summer, long ago and far away, I was on a softball team. It would be an exaggeration to say I played softball, but I did participate in practices,...
0 replies - 1279 views - 02/10/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln
The zeroeth trap of...
0 replies - 1613 views - 02/09/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
Example 3: Using a Project Manager with Iterations and Kanban and Silo’d Teams
Here, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San...
0 replies - 2092 views - 02/09/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
In previous posts I covered:
Part 1: Mentor and mentee roles, gains and sacrifices, mutual respect
Part 2: How to choose mentors and mentees and mentorship...
0 replies - 913 views - 02/08/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
In part one I gave a bit of background history and also described the roles and responsibilities of mentors and mentees according to the Software...
0 replies - 616 views - 02/07/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
Because “technical debt” has the word “debt” in it, many people have decided that it makes sense to think and work with technical debt in monetary...
3 replies - 6097 views - 02/05/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
Just yesterday, Tuesday, our team was stuck on the wrong side of a very tight deadline. We needed to reach a significant milestone by the end of the day...
0 replies - 1380 views - 02/01/13 by Peter Schuh in Articles
The Apache Bloodhound team has just announced their first release of 2013. Bloodhound (Incubating) is a software collaboration tool that builds on the proven...
0 replies - 1258 views - 01/29/13 by Jessica Thornsby in Articles
Many months ago, Rebecca asked an interesting question about technical debt in projects. She asked,
How to start when there’s a really big mess? In that...
1 replies - 1810 views - 01/24/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
A participant in one of my workshops of my workshops declared that in
every team there is pecking order….and every one knows what the order is
from one...
0 replies - 1000 views - 01/24/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
