Allan Kelly04/16/13
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Companies believe that Developers will somehow comprehend what is needed from a simple statement. In the worst cases this is a condition I refer to as: “Requirements by Project Title”. Just because Developers understand the technology doesn’t mean they understand what is needed.
Roman Pichler04/15/13
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Agile product planning comprises three levels: vision, product strategy, and tactics. The vision is the overarching goal, the product strategy the path to the vision, and the tactics are the steps along the way, as the following diagram illustrates:
Michael Sahota04/15/13
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There is no single path or prescription for high-performance organizational culture. Increasingly companies are abandoning the traditional “modern management” practices developed for manufacturing and are moving to post-modern approaches that reflect the changing face of work and the needs of knowledge workers.
Esther Derby 04/15/13
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Many managers feel too busy to read. Many don’t have good role models within their companies. I meet many people in management roles who have never picked up a serious management book.
Esther Derby 04/14/13
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Managers of self-organizing teams need to discern when it’s time to step in and when to step back, allowing the team to solve the problem on its own. How do you know when a light touch is called for and when action is needed?
David Bland04/14/13
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A Business Model Canvas is an easy to use, lightweight and powerful tool for anyone looking to sketch out business models. It is quickly becoming the preferred strategic management tool for start-up organizations.
Johanna Rothman04/14/13
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Choosing to be a manager without being a leader is like choosing to drive across the country without a map. Choosing to be a leader without having management skills is like choosing to be a fish without gills. You have to know where you’re going, and you have to know how to breathe in your environment.
Olga Kouzina04/13/13
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TargetProcess 2.24.0 includes quite a few small and big improvements. Check what we’ve done to help you work better, faster, more comfortably. These include Fast Search, Relations Network, new Visual Reports, 60 custom fields, History API.
Esther Derby 04/13/13
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Life is too short to let the people we work with fray our nerves. We can’t change those irritating people, but we can recognize the source of our irritation and change our own response.
Tobias Mayer04/13/13
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Procrastinating this evening, I got lost in a long stream of tweets about timeboxing, fascinated at how much disdain was aimed at a simple unit of time, and how it was blamed for sloppy workmanship, poor quality, panic and many other dysfunctional behaviors.
Johanna Rothman04/12/13
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Over on agileconnection, a user asked about a self-assessment tool for measuring agile maturity. That’s not exactly the right question, because agile transition is a journey, not a destination. But, I can understand why he asked the question. I tried to be helpful. I supplied a set of questions to ask.
Zac Gery04/11/13
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In the article, "Psychology and the Agile Methodology," the concept of embracing failure was put under the microscope. In summary, although agile encourages failing fast and often, this can be a difficult concept for people to accept.
Michael Sahota04/11/13
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I’m writing about a talk given by Paul Hodgetts at Agile 2009 called “ScrumMasters Considered Harmful – Where Did We Go Wrong?”
Mitch Pronschinske04/11/13
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A node v. php v. go benchmarking session and some cool CSS and Mac tools make up this link list. Plus GitHub turns 5 and we get a demo of quantum levitation.
public function __construct()
{
$this->db = Zend_Db_Table::getDefaultAdapter();
$this->db->getProfiler()->setEnabled(TRUE);
}
public function __destruct(){
Zend_Debug::dump($this->db->getProfiler()->getQueryProfiles());
}
