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The Todd on Tech: Why we went Kanban
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The Todd on Tech. Thursday, August 11, 2011. Why we went Kanban. I don’t think any single process is the best fit for all teams. Teams and projects using Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or any other custom process you can think of have been successful in the past. In my opinion, the most important thing to keep in mind is that the process should be constantly evolving, similar to the software that you are building. Track output, not arbitrary numbers. Planning sessions are no substitute for conversations.
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The Todd on Tech: January 2009
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The Todd on Tech. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. My good friend Jeff. Tagged me to blog my goals for the year. I'm glad he gave me a little inspiration for this as my personal goals are something that's been floating around in my head for some time. With the exception of the first two they are in no order. Here they are, etched in the annals of the internet. 1) Delight my wife. 2) Be a better father to my 2 girls. 3) Exceed the expectations of every customer I come in contact with. 4) Blog every other week.
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The Todd on Tech: August 2011
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The Todd on Tech. Thursday, August 11, 2011. Why we went Kanban. I don’t think any single process is the best fit for all teams. Teams and projects using Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or any other custom process you can think of have been successful in the past. In my opinion, the most important thing to keep in mind is that the process should be constantly evolving, similar to the software that you are building. Track output, not arbitrary numbers. Planning sessions are no substitute for conversations.
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The Todd on Tech: July 2011
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The Todd on Tech. Friday, July 29, 2011. Myth #1: Indian Developers are Subpar. Myth #2: Communication Will be Easy. Everyone speaks English right? Well at least a country that was colonized by England speaks English, right? Myth #3: Cultural Differences are not that Wide. I knew that there would be cultural differences but I really had no idea how different the people are here from back home. I had brushed up on the differences with a great book, Speaking of India. Thursday, July 21, 2011. Consider thi...
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The Todd on Tech: August 2009
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The Todd on Tech. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Interviewing Tip #3 - Focus on Fundamentals. Apologies for the significant delay, but I wanted to pick up the interviewing tips to get at least two more topics off my chest before turning to other posts. I've at times let people slide in an interview without much pressure on their foundational knowledge, but no more. I could care less at this point if you know whether SQLException is a Checked or Runtime exception in Java. You better be able to talk th...I am ...
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The Todd on Tech: September 2008
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The Todd on Tech. Friday, September 19, 2008. Clustered Scheduling with Spring and Quartz. Need a question mark here but star there? Comma or dash between my minutes? 1) Download Spring 2.5.5 and only use the Quartz 1.6.1 RC1 jar that is bundled within the lib directory of it. DO NOT USE A PREVIOUS VERSION OF QUARTZ. 2) Execute your appropriate database script. They can be found in the quartz distro under the docs dbTables subdirectory. Make sure that indexes are setup as outlined here. 0 0 1,13 * *?
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The Todd on Tech: Trials and Tribulations of getting Jenkins on Windows pulling from GitHub
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The Todd on Tech. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Trials and Tribulations of getting Jenkins on Windows pulling from GitHub. I’m assuming you already have a Windows server with Jenkins up and running on it. I’m also going to assume that you installed it as a service. if you aren’t there yet, follow the instructions here: https:/ wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing Jenkins as a Windows service. Install yourself some msysgit from here: http:/ code.google.com/p/msysgit/. Configure a netrc file and sto...
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The Todd on Tech: October 2009
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The Todd on Tech. Friday, October 30, 2009. About 6 years ago I began my first consulting assignment with the idea that I would bounce around from client to client, build my network, and begin to determine what type of company I wanted to work for. A strange thing happened however, I began to realize that my consulting company, Quick Solutions. Monday, October 12, 2009. I've also been fortunate enough to be selected to present a 1/2 day pre-compiler at Codemash. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am gainfully...
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The Todd on Tech: Thank You Coimbatore
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The Todd on Tech. Friday, July 29, 2011. Myth #1: Indian Developers are Subpar. Myth #2: Communication Will be Easy. Everyone speaks English right? Well at least a country that was colonized by England speaks English, right? Myth #3: Cultural Differences are not that Wide. I knew that there would be cultural differences but I really had no idea how different the people are here from back home. I had brushed up on the differences with a great book, Speaking of India. Ive had similar negative experiences ...