Management love their metrics. The thinking goes something like this, "We need a number to measure how we’re doing. Numbers focus people and help us measure...
0 replies - 3221 views - 02/20/13 by Patrick Kua in Articles
A few months ago, I did publish a post (in French) following my reading of Leonard Mlodinow’s the Drunkard’s Walk. More precisely,...
0 replies - 940 views - 02/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Today, I wanted to publish a post on economics, and decision theory. And probability too… Those who do follow my blog should know that I am a big...
0 replies - 1101 views - 02/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
I’ve just started reading Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather.The subtitle may be a little misleading. There is a...
0 replies - 373 views - 02/20/13 by John Cook in Articles
Content:
I. Describing of problem
II. Overview of existing solutions
III.The solution without aspects
IV. Solution with using...
0 replies - 661 views - 02/20/13 by Oleg Nikolaenko in Articles
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving.
I once worked...
0 replies - 967 views - 02/20/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
Dependency inversion is the idea that interfaces should depend on
abstractions not on specifics. According to Wikipedia, the principle...
0 replies - 1981 views - 02/19/13 by Chris Travers in Articles
There is a huge difference between a principle and a best practice.
Best practices are subjective and depend largely on context, while principles are...
1 replies - 7177 views - 02/19/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Code Metrics sure get mixed feelings by developers, especially when combined with thresholds to form checks that might make a CI build fail. Typical examples...
0 replies - 3025 views - 02/19/13 by Jens Schauder in Articles
Real world experience.
Once upon a time there lived a family of programming bears.
Each morning mammy bear, daddy bear and baby bear would rise and...
0 replies - 2863 views - 02/19/13 by Edmund Kirwan in Articles
Last year I wrote a post describing how I’d gone about getting data for my ThoughtWorks graph and one mistake about my approach in retrospect is...
0 replies - 1473 views - 02/19/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
The IT Ops team’s 4th sprint came to its conclusion recently… and we delivered all of our commitments! Huzzah! This post is basically a summary of how we...
0 replies - 1747 views - 02/19/13 by James Betteley in Articles
About a month ago I had the good fortune of speaking at the London Web Performance meetup. This was one of the first talks I’ve done about our work at The...
0 replies - 1468 views - 02/19/13 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles
Scrum as a methodology is very transparent, everything is done in open sunlight where everyone can view. Following the spirit of scrum, everything is open for...
3 replies - 3317 views - 02/18/13 by Anders Abel in Articles
In this ØREDEV session, Ryan McGeary explains how teams can improve communication (and results) through asynchronous collaboration:
0 replies - 2587 views - 02/18/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
