January 30, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Martin Fowler has recently posted a note on Flaccid Scrum. Related posts such as Jim Shore’s The Decline and Fall of Agile have made similar points. Lots of
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January 28, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
Elizabeth Hendrickson hosted a web chat yesterday, attended by her imaginary brother Chet, Corey Haines, J.B.Rainsberger, and yours truly. After about a year of getting the microphones and webcams to work, we settled down to talk about pair programming.
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January 27, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
James Brett runs scrummaster.com.au. He is starting a new series called “5 Questions”, where he asks leading lights in the industry five questions about Scrum and their relationship with it. Apparently he was unable to get any leading…
January 26, 2009
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Hot Needle of Inquiry
I’ll be attending the Scrum Gathering in Orlando this March, as will Chet. We’ll be speaking, and generally milling around with the rest of the folks.
January 15, 2009
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Articles, Classics, Hot Needle of Inquiry
Agile software development, with one exception mentioned below, is iterative. An iteration consists of a short time-box, from one month down to one week. The length of the iteration, averaged…
An associate sent me a note pointing out that a domain, southwesthosting.net belonging to Phillip Robinson included a large amount of my copyrighted material.
I sent him a polite note asking him to remove it, followed by an official…
Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.
Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.
Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let’s think about it a bit.
Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.