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Kanban Questioning

Moving beyond the Visual part of the Kanban Method and beginning the process of collaboratively improving the system with policies that enable you to work...

1 replies - 1302 views - 03/25/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles

Team Transformation for Continuous Delivery with Chris O’Dell – As It Happened

Preamble:No time for that, I’m seriously late. I was leaving the office just as someone said “James, before you go…” and that was the end of any hopes...

0 replies - 1419 views - 03/24/13 by James Betteley in Articles

Resolving Conflicts in Subversion

When you’re committing changes to Apache Subversion’s central repository, you may occasionally encounter a conflict which will cause your commit to...

0 replies - 2291 views - 03/24/13 by Jessica Thornsby in Articles

The Bully CEO

Today I read, and recommended an article by a CEO entitled A Good Place to Work. Reading the article quickly, as I sometimes do, given the multitude of blogs I...

0 replies - 1799 views - 03/24/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles

When to Grant Domain Admin Permissions

So I’m sure we’ve all had to contemplate this at some point in our development lifetime – when is it appropriate to grant developers and architects the...

0 replies - 2423 views - 03/24/13 by Rob Sanders in Articles

Comparing Quantiles for Two Samples

Recently, for a research paper, I had some samples and I wanted to compare them. Not to compare the means (by construction, all of them were centered) but the...

0 replies - 869 views - 03/24/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Software Architecture Versus Traditional Architecture

The process of building a new house and developing a new software application share similar concepts and methodologies. If we examine how a house is built then...

0 replies - 1481 views - 03/24/13 by Todd Merritt in Articles

Pendulum Swings and Oscillating Control By Managers

 An effective hierarchy provides enough central control for coordinated action in achieving the aim of the organization. At the same time, the...

0 replies - 813 views - 03/24/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted

I have an article posted at Techwell, Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization. This myth has always been a problem. It’s even more of a problem now...

0 replies - 1229 views - 03/24/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Google Glass and the Fear of the Future

Google Glass is coming this year, a wearable display that can keep you connected at all the times and supply information and instructions when you need...

0 replies - 2029 views - 03/23/13 by Henri Bergius in Articles

Nonnerdy Applied Mathematics

From Antifragile:There is such a thing as nonnerdy applied mathematics: find a problem first, and figure out the math that works for it (just as one...

0 replies - 2234 views - 03/22/13 by John Cook in Articles

Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps Excellence

Former ThoughtWorker Steve Moyer has written two blog entries on an aspect of an Agile mission we did a few years ago. He was the pivotal designer/implementer...

0 replies - 3063 views - 03/22/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles

My Simple View of Testing

Assumptions + important edge cases. That’s it. That’s all I consider when I’m testing my code. But knowing that you aren’t satisfied with such a...

0 replies - 1651 views - 03/21/13 by Nick Watts in Articles

Seeing How Well a Team’s Story Points Align from One to Eight

The topic of how well a team estimates two point stories relative to one point stories (and so on) has come up in a couple of comments and replies on this blog...

1 replies - 1283 views - 03/21/13 by Mike Cohn in Articles

5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 1

5 Questions was a series created by James Brett. The ideas was to ask five specific questions to members of the Scrum community and post the their replies. I...

0 replies - 2163 views - 03/21/13 by Kane Mar in Articles