
Recently, I was catching up with a former colleague. He mentioned a service that I wrote years ago, and how it has since become known as the Career Killer....
1 replies - 3394 views - 03/19/13 by Cody Powell in Articles

I’ll say this up front before continuing. I absolutely love reading Bruce Schneier and thoroughly respect his opinion on damn near everything that has to do...
0 replies - 791 views - 03/19/13 by Jason Whaley in Articles

I attended and spoke at Agile India 2012 in Banglore, India. It was a wonderful experience - the conference was excellent, and my first trip to India was...
0 replies - 1782 views - 03/18/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles

A couple of months ago I started working at Buzzilla, a company developing "cutting edge technologies and revolutionary analysis and research...
0 replies - 1998 views - 03/16/13 by Itamar Syn-hershko in Articles

Jim has 15 years experience Jo has 2, they are pair programming but neither are very happy. Jim is frustrated with having to explain himself, he...
0 replies - 3251 views - 03/16/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles

You pass the t-shirt test when people proudly wear a t-shirt with the logo of your organization on it.
Would you proudly wear a t-shirt with your own name?
I...
0 replies - 3272 views - 03/16/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

When you reject a data point as an outlier, you’re saying that the point is unlikely to occur again, despite the fact that you’ve already seen it. This...
0 replies - 1432 views - 03/15/13 by John Cook in Articles

A week ago, I wrote an article before on Trunk Based Development (TBD) at Facebook, but there’s newer source material. At InfoQ’s QCon this...
0 replies - 5764 views - 03/15/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles

Many managers ask me, “How can I motivate my team?”
I’ve certainly seen many efforts to motivate teams. Contests, prizes, pep talks, badges,...
1 replies - 2491 views - 03/15/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

We always have interesting discussions at work, both philosophical and mostly programming discussions. Sometimes the things people say make you think a while...
2 replies - 3232 views - 03/14/13 by Filip Ekberg in Articles

It’s been six months since I switched jobs and began to work from home most of the time. It’s downright amazing, the best thing I’ve ever done. Seeing my...
7 replies - 7523 views - 03/14/13 by Felix Dahlke in Articles

I've written about Conway's Law before (Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?”)...
2 replies - 5510 views - 03/14/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

Picking a pope may be one of the last vestiges of the pre-Internet age, with black smoke and white smoke being the world-side signal of success or failure in...
3 replies - 1799 views - 03/14/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Prediction intervals and confidence intervals are not the same thing. Unfortunately the terms are often confused, and I am often...
0 replies - 2520 views - 03/14/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles

At the IIS Summit last year, the
panelists covered a range of areas of value, but there was also some
confusion as to what impacts API openness and...
0 replies - 1696 views - 03/14/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles