Only one in three employees is highly engaged says Towers Watson in a 2012 study. Not only does that make sense to me, I fear the number may actually be even...
2 replies - 2713 views - 04/01/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
Over the past 10 years I have been developing software as a one man IT department, software engineering team member, and/or acting as an independent software...
0 replies - 1353 views - 03/31/13 by Todd Merritt in Articles
Download the MP3Date: March 29, 2013By: Aaron Delp and Brian GracelyDescription: Aaron, Brian and Nick Weaver talk with Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim -...
0 replies - 1758 views - 03/31/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles
Writing unit tests for multi-threaded is not simple and could even be impossible for some scenarios – how could you test that an asynchronous method was not...
0 replies - 2127 views - 03/31/13 by Dror Helper in Articles
There is some talk of values in the Scrum literature. The five values
called out by the writers of the original Scrum book are focus,
courage, openness,...
4 replies - 3861 views - 03/30/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles
There are stories showing up now saying that social media is a trend that is becoming played out and on the downside of its hype cycle. I would argue that’s...
0 replies - 1084 views - 03/30/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
Benford’s law is nowadays extremely popular (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/…). It is usually claimed that, for a given set data set, changing...
0 replies - 2115 views - 03/30/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from...
0 replies - 2081 views - 03/29/13 by Robert Diana in Articles
People have tried to get me involved as co-author of their book. But I didn’t want to. It was not my book.
Some have asked me to help organize their...
0 replies - 1812 views - 03/29/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
While doing the electronic equivalent of cleaning the attic yesterday, I
stumbled across an internal paper I wrote at a client back in late
September...
0 replies - 1425 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles
When I was in high school I had a conversation with a singer, a man with an incredible range. I was sitting at a piano, and he demonstrated that he could sing...
0 replies - 2420 views - 03/29/13 by John Cook in Articles
Investing into code improvement is a dual edged sword: on the one hand you know that if you don’t improve your code you’ll get slower over time. On the...
3 replies - 3615 views - 03/29/13 by Matthias Marschall in Articles
Hadoop Spring Roundup - With the Strata Conference, the Gartner BI Summit, and the Hadoop Summit all occurring in the month of March, there is a mountain...
0 replies - 441 views - 03/28/13 by Bootstrap Mark... in Articles
Refactoring is a way to improve code quality over time using incremental set of improvements – the idea is to increase the ability to make changes safer and...
0 replies - 2736 views - 03/27/13 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles
About 15 years ago, I started a simple practice with my fellow
co-workers and employees. Every so often, we'd meet to discuss stuff and
things. Nothing too...
0 replies - 2160 views - 03/27/13 by Michael Norton in Articles
