An office might not seem like an unhealthy working environment when compared to factories and car garages. Working in an office demands sitting for long...
0 replies - 1787 views - 03/25/13 by David Shaw in Articles
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 - 1787 views - 03/24/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles
A while back, I was invited to do a coding dojo for the Java user group in Bergen. I have written a few words about the dojo part of the exercise in a previous...
0 replies - 3495 views - 03/23/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles
How Spotify Uses Python
Following the example of the Netflix blog, the Spotify developer blog also posted a ‘how we use Python’ article. Both were...
0 replies - 1967 views - 03/22/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles
I see it again and again. The suggestion of systems thinkers and Agile writers to stop blaming people and instead try blaming the system.
“It’s not...
3 replies - 3420 views - 03/21/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
The proclamation by Marissa Mayer last month, informing Yahoo employees that working from home is no longer an option, really seemed to bring an important...
0 replies - 2291 views - 03/20/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles
Free Works
Marco Arment has some thoughts on the “monoculture” created by free products like Google Reader, and the complicated consequences that ensue....
0 replies - 6287 views - 03/20/13 by Allen Coin in Articles
Republished from blog.iterate.no with the permission of my co-author, Morten Berg, and later updated.
There are a few books that every developer in Iterate...
0 replies - 2542 views - 03/19/13 by Jakub Holý in Articles
My colleague Kristina Chodorow wrote a post on working at 10gen with which I was a bit obsessed when I applied for a gig here in late 2011. Recently I've had...
0 replies - 5144 views - 03/19/13 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
I remember sitting in a project meeting back
when I worked for a Big Company. The project manager, Ted, announced the
top three priorities. When I...
2 replies - 1985 views - 03/18/13 by Esther Derby 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
The Effective Engineer’s Handbook
You don’t need to read dozens of books to be an effective engineer. Just stick to following these three pieces of...
0 replies - 3986 views - 03/14/13 by Allen Coin in Articles
As part of the SmarcoS project, we have been investigating how to make workplaces smarter through sensors and context awareness. Here is a video showing what...
3 replies - 2201 views - 03/11/13 by Henri Bergius in Articles
You’re close to shipping and you receive a shopping list of
bugs and changes. Some are tiny and un-eventful, some are show stoppers,
some let...
0 replies - 1378 views - 03/09/13 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles
Every other Friday, my team holds a retrospective meeting. One issue
that came up in our most recent retrospective was a particularly
contentious user...
2 replies - 2028 views - 03/08/13 by Josh Adell in Articles
