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Mitch Pronschinske03/26/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/27)

News about Google's Go and Ruby. Plus, the hoops that job candidates have to jump through and Erlang the Movie II: The Sequel.

Johanna Rothman03/26/13
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Do You Have Feature-itis?

Feature-itis. It’s an agile Product Owner game. It’s when the Product Owner says, in his or her best George Carlin voice, “Gimme Features. I don’t care about no stinkin’ framework. I don’t care about no technical debt. I don’t care that...

Steve Rogalsky03/26/13
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Thoughts on Beyond Deadlines by Jabe Bloom

Deadlines have their roots in motivating workers who were thought to need extrinsic motivation in order to avoid slacking off. Jabe contrasts this view with Deming's view that extrinsic motivation (deadlines, fear, money, etc) can actually rob us of our intrinsic motivation.

David Shaw03/25/13
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You Can Be Comfortable And Productive At The Same Time!

An office might not seem like an unhealthy working environment when compared to factories and car garages. Working in an office demands sitting for long periods of time working in front of a computer which means comfort and right posture is of the utmost importance.

Gil Zilberfeld03/25/13
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The Better Side Of Anger

It was the nth time that a supplier has failed us. If we analyze it logically, there were two options: Get mad or roll with the punches. Since we’re not Vulcan, it’s not really a logical choice: what we felt is anger, defeat. Or both.

Tom Howlett03/25/13
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Kanban Questioning

I’m firm believer in the people doing the work being in the best position to discover the changes needed. Since most waste comes from the interactions and relationships between people, we need to bring all people working as part of the value stream together.

Martin Fowler03/25/13
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Standard Story Points

I've heard a couple of questions recently about coming up with a standard story point mechanism for multiple teams using extreme programming's planning approach. The hope is have several teams all using equivalent story points, so that three story points of effort on one team is the same as on another.

Tobias Mayer03/24/13
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The Bully CEO

The CEO has a noble goal. And he has a lousy technique for getting there. As employees we can seek to draw such people into dialog, rather than pandering to their anger.

Esther Derby 03/24/13
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Pendulum Swings and Oscillating Control By Managers

I’ve seen a number of organizations decentralize control and decision making, only to pull it back to the home office. If you watch long enough, many of these companies after experiencing centralized control for a while, go back to decentralized control–like a pendulum swinging back and forth.

Johanna Rothman03/24/13
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Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted

Thinking is work. Not all work occurs when fingers touch a keyboard. Not all work occurs when mouths are open and moving. Even I have learned to sometimes think with my mouth shut, although that is an infrequent occurrence.

Johannes Brodwall03/23/13
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Real-Time Coding Competition with Extreme Startup

In the exercise, each group creates a bare-bones web server in a programming language of their choice and register its URL with the workshop server on my computer. The workshop server then starts asking each registered web server questions over http. In the beginning of the competition, the workshop participants don’t know anything.

Mitch Pronschinske03/23/13
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Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for UX Research Projects

Josh has been creating great technology products for more than 20 years. A UX design leader, Josh has worked in hardware and software, consumer and enterprise, mobile, web, and desktop. He was head of product design at Wall Street innovator Liquidnet, and lead pioneering interaction design teams at Cooper.