Ian Mitchell05/09/13
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The seeds of backlog decay are often sown in the very willingness of an agile team to be adaptable. Urgent tasks are dealt with as they arise, and backlog items are pushed back to make way. Can anything be done to stop a Product Backlog from becoming the "Land of Forgotten Dreams"?
Esther Derby 05/09/13
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When I feel empowered, I can get work done, achieve my coals, do my best, be more effective, effect change, or do anything!
Gil Zilberfeld05/09/13
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A simple list of bullet points to check for when you are writing tests. Always try to improve your naming, mocking, refactoring, and picking scenarios.
Mike Cottmeyer05/09/13
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This is the latest iteration of my Agile Program and Portfolio Management deck. Take a look and let me know what you think!
Johanna Rothman05/09/13
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One of my readers asked a question about the Urgent queue and the relative ranking of my ever-growing left hand column. How did I determine what to do, and what was the rank of each?
Michael Sahota05/09/13
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In this post I am sharing workshop results on how to understand the readiness of the leadership to undertake organizational transformation such as the intentional upgrade of the cultural operating system. It is partly a checklist and partly a diagnostic tool to understand current perceptions.
Paul Hammant05/09/13
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ExperTelligence introduced IB in 1986. We took it up to neXt to show Steve Jobs – the rest is history. In 1988, Denison Bollay built a much more dynamic interface tool, in which the interface was fully modifiable as the program was running.
Mitch Pronschinske05/08/13
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Many development shops have made the leap from RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, PVCS, CVS, BitKeeper or SourceSafe to the modern Subversion (SVN) version control system.
Michael Dubakov05/08/13
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Any interface develops in cycles. Someone comes up with a new interface, users start bringing in their feedback — that’s the stage of step-by-step improvements. One has to rework some parts of the functionality and mix in new features gradually, without having people learn from scratch.
Allan Kelly05/08/13
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Last month InfoQ carried an update on the use of retrospective dialogue sheets. The use of these sheets continues to grow and I continue to receive good feedback.
Juri Strumpflohner05/07/13
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I previously wrote about my Sublime Text setup. Well, Tuts+ has published a quite nice Sublime Text tutorial showing most of Sublime’s features. Regardless of whether you’re a Sublime Text enthusiast or not, you should definitely take a look at the tutorial.
Ian Mitchell05/07/13
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Mythbusters is enormously popular with technical types, and it's fair to say that it has earned something of a hallowed position in nerd culture. It's certainly a common topic at the water cooler for many in the IT business. So is there something in their approach to busting myths that resonates with modern software development practice?
Michael Sahota05/06/13
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The post is about how one can create a bubble of a new culture inside of an existing organization. For example, this may be used by a group interested in developing an innovation and learning culture inside a typical bureaucratic organization. This post is a continuation of my earlier post on how to Build Culture Adapters to Avoid Agile Failure.
Steve Rogalsky05/06/13
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I'm a big fan of using silent brainstorming in order to generate ideas as individuals before processing those ideas as a group. "Priming" is yet another reason why using silence is important.
Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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Run Ruby in-browser, see 2 views of a chessboard in Python, and find out if video codecs will be written in JavaScript in the future. Plus, take a look at Oculus Rift simulations and learn about Dropbox's first conference.
