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Cynical Software Management: Atlassian Starter Licenses: $5 JIRA and $5 Confluence
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Atlassian Starter Licenses: $5 JIRA and $5 Confluence. Atlassian is currently selling one year 5-seat JIRA and 5-seat Confluence licenses for $5 each - www.atlassian.com/starter. Offer is good for this week only. All proceeds go to the very worthy charity ( Room to Read. These instances are fully functional and supported instances of JIRA and Confluence, not "light" versions. They are renewable for $5 (all proceeds for renewals go to charity also) year after year.
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Cynical Software Management: Self Organizing teams.
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Monday, April 6, 2009. It seems like kitchen based analogies. Are all the rage these days. In the interest in cashing in on this phenomenon I will relate watching Top Chef (Season 5, Restaurant Wars. Self organizing teams does not mean that a Team Lead can "Manage by being a lazy bastard" It still takes work. As tempting as it is to translate "allow developers to do the job as they see fit" into "I can go to the beach while developers do the work" if you do, you are done. Managing Humans, 3rd Edition.
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Cynical Software Management: January 2009
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Friday, January 30, 2009. Performance Reviews – part II. If the objective is to help people grow in their careers (and this * should. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Semi-Bi-Annual Review Time - Part 1. This post is not going to be about Atlassian's review policy, but rather what I believe an review policy should be. So how should an semi/annual review look. Here is part 1 of what I recommend. Thursday, January 8, 2009. In Agile Estimating and Planning. Michael T. Nygard uses the analogy of a car that f...
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Cynical Software Management: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Annual Reviews - Final Thoughts. In talking with several people around the office about the low value of giving ratings during performance reviews, I realized there was yet another reasons they suck. Aside from the previous stated reasons of setting false expectations, they also focus employees self-improvement efforts into the wrong areas. What does this have to do with ratings? But this doesn't help the individual, the team or the project. If they area needed to improv...
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Cynical Software Management: Virtual Agile
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Thursday, June 25, 2009. Cross posted from Atlassian Developer Blog. Have become an indispensable tool for a software development team practicing agile. There are a host. With information on strategies for and benefits of utilizing index cards. Use Index Cards for a variety of reasons, including:. Helping with iteration planning. Assigning tasks and then tracking developer assignments. As one component of the team's Information Radiator. Data from cards and issue tracker being out of synch. Subscribe to:...
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Cynical Software Management: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Mobius Strip of Priorities. It is no great secret that one of the great productivity killers in software development is context switching. Development by its very nature is a concentration driven activity. Forcing developers to modify what tasks they are working on before those tasks are complete causes it to take an order of magnitude more time to finally finish any given task. After all, which project do you say no to? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Managing Humans, 3rd Edition.
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Cynical Software Management: April 2009
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Atlassian Starter Licenses: $5 JIRA and $5 Confluence. Atlassian is currently selling one year 5-seat JIRA and 5-seat Confluence licenses for $5 each - www.atlassian.com/starter. Offer is good for this week only. All proceeds go to the very worthy charity ( Room to Read. These instances are fully functional and supported instances of JIRA and Confluence, not "light" versions. They are renewable for $5 (all proceeds for renewals go to charity also) year after year.
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Cynical Software Management: June 2009
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Thursday, June 25, 2009. Cross posted from Atlassian Developer Blog. Have become an indispensable tool for a software development team practicing agile. There are a host. With information on strategies for and benefits of utilizing index cards. Use Index Cards for a variety of reasons, including:. Helping with iteration planning. Assigning tasks and then tracking developer assignments. As one component of the team's Information Radiator. Data from cards and issue tracker being out of synch. Managing Huma...
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Best productivity book of 2007 | The Productivity Habit
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Effective time management for goal-oriented people. About The Productivity Habit. The power of habit. The pointy end of multi-tasking don’t answer the phone! To do more, you have to do less. Best productivity book of 2007. June 23, 2008. The most significant book that I read last year and the one that really turned the lights on for me, was The Slight Edge. Importantly, it shows that these actions are not particularly difficult in themselves to do, but unfortunately they are easy. I think the most intere...
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How many projects are too many? | The Productivity Habit
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Effective time management for goal-oriented people. About The Productivity Habit. The power of habit. Commuting time is YOUR time use it wisely. Effective project managers live in the future. How many projects are too many? December 13, 2008. I’ve identified a number of leading indicators that I can use to check that I’m on top of a project – indicators that help me identify problems before they occur rather than after. For example, I review and update project risks. I’ve spoken with my customer(s).
