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IT from the exile: 2010-03-07
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IT from the exile. I'm back in black, so to speak (just served myself some fresh brewed coffee as a sunday afternoon treat). I'm reading the excellent book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor your wetware. And so far the best tip of insight I've had is this: Context Matters. Some time ago, scientists believed that neurogenesis couldn't happen in humans. The amount of neurons of our brains was fixed, and could only decrease as we get older. Today, they think it's the opposite that's true. 6:44 PM Ca...
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IT from the exile: Agile leadership
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IT from the exile. Let's go back in time about 100 years, in order to remember some things about work management a nice north-american fellow said:. Workers are lazy, they will always do as little as possible. Workers do not care about quality. Workers are not smart enough to know the best way to do they job. That, in a nutshell, is what Taylor. Said at the time about which was the best way to manage the workforce. No, not Roger Taylor. he rules! Excellent book by the way:. How does all of this relate wi...
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IT from the exile: In the zone
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IT from the exile. Hello to the few people persistent enough to be still following me, and also to those that come pay me a visit now and again to see whether I've decided to make up my bloody mind and write another post. Sorry for being so out of sight. Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following ten factors as accompanying an experience of flow:. A high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention. A person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
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IT from the exile: 2010-09-12
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IT from the exile. Hello to the few people persistent enough to be still following me, and also to those that come pay me a visit now and again to see whether I've decided to make up my bloody mind and write another post. Sorry for being so out of sight. Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following ten factors as accompanying an experience of flow:. A high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention. A person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
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IT from the exile: Context matters II
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IT from the exile. I can't say that enough: Context Matters. And that advice extends also to the tools that we are using. Can we listen to music in a cheap mp3 player? Sure But how's it that an iPod seems better at it? It's not just some extra feature or the audio quality or some social way of saying "hey, I'm trendy and cool". It's also that it conveys an ease of use. And that my friends, is context at work. An excerpt from the awesome book " Pragmatic thinking and learning: Refactor your wetware. So, n...
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IT from the exile: 2010-02-07
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IT from the exile. Well, I'm back to bring you an awesome video of Mary Poppendieck. From that video I got the inspiration to write the previous article. A little background information about her would come in handy here:. And Managing Director of AgileAlliance. And the video. It's a MUST WATCH. For any leader in the software development business. 7:00 PM Category: 0 comentarios. Enlaces a esta entrada. Workers are lazy, they will always do as little as possible. Workers do not care about quality. And it...
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IT from the exile: 2010-02-14
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IT from the exile. Our orientation is basically a technical one. Most of the people that come out of college (at least this one) with a degree in Software Engineering are glorified programmers, only with a superficial knowledge about what being an Engineer really is, and with absolutely no concience of the profound implications of the work that they will be performing. Who's to blame for that? Spiderman's uncle was right. and also a little corny. Is what you do with what's been done to you. It's even...
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IT from the exile: 2010-03-14
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IT from the exile. I can't say that enough: Context Matters. And that advice extends also to the tools that we are using. Can we listen to music in a cheap mp3 player? Sure But how's it that an iPod seems better at it? It's not just some extra feature or the audio quality or some social way of saying "hey, I'm trendy and cool". It's also that it conveys an ease of use. And that my friends, is context at work. An excerpt from the awesome book " Pragmatic thinking and learning: Refactor your wetware. So, n...
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IT from the exile: Do you know how to read?
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IT from the exile. Do you know how to read? No, I'm not talking about just interpreting the symbols that build our alphabet. I'm talking about knowing your way around a book. Why can't we just return to books? Of course, this was not a perfect filtering process. There are books that reached us from a long time ago that I could think are worthless, because they were promoted by the powers at the time, and are still there to do so. But what could the Internet add to this process that improved it? I feel st...
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