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 - 3355 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 - 3328 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 - 1485 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 - 6030 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 - 2578 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 - 3324 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 - 7786 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 - 5754 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 - 1865 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 - 2732 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 - 1748 views - 03/14/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles
Introduction
The IT buzzword of 2012 is without a doubt Big Data. It’s new and
here to stay, and for a good reason. Big data is data that exceeds the...
0 replies - 3554 views - 03/13/13 by Roy Prins in Articles
Several years ago, I had a job that seemed like heaven. We were a new team building a new product. We were using new technology: C# 2.0 (yes, people were once...
2 replies - 5455 views - 03/12/13 by Cody Powell in Articles
I recently reviewed a number of Google Big Data papers. Today I’ll talk a bit about Megastore and Spanner, two distributed databases...
0 replies - 2412 views - 03/12/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles
Before writing this post, I am assuming that you know the basics of JUnit. If you do not have the basic knowledge, first read this link. Further, in this post,...
1 replies - 4787 views - 03/12/13 by Lokesh Gupta in Articles
