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FloorSweepings: April 2010
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Thursday, April 15, 2010. Rockclimbing, Baguettes, Agile Skills and Opposing Forces. Got into some interesting conversations recently - check out Slack: we're not slacking off! And FORCES Behind Skills. Links to this post. Friday, April 2, 2010. Life/Death/Agility 6: How Many Deaths Will it Take? Milo passed this little gem. But it was not to be. The project was canceled, a victim not of the audit but of the economy and a distant corporate mer...
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FloorSweepings: January 2010
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Thursday, January 28, 2010. Yet another frakkin' metaphor. Vintage Trek from 1984, courtesy of YakShaving. This is beautiful, brilliantly engineered by master craftsmen and insanely efficient, but it's not what I want to build. However, it's what I do for a living, and I have to exhibit enthusiasm. Wright Flyer 1, courtesy of Wikipedia. This is ugly and somewhat makeshift, and is pretty lousy at its intended purpose. But. Links to this post. With ...
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FloorSweepings: January 2013
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Monday, January 21, 2013. The Incident of the Fumbled Phone Screen. It was a technical screen led by an architect at a company that billed itself as Agile. We started out with a general conversation about good OO practice and Agile development. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sometimes we get what we expect. The reactions to that? 8th Light - Home. Refactor and Source-Control Your CI. Ongoing by Tim Bray. In my earlier post, we di...
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FloorSweepings: July 2010
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Just watched a great video - The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design,. By Michael Feathers. Combining this with JBrains' blog post How test-driven development works (and more). And his video Integration Tests are a Scam. Would make an excellent intro to TDD, and maybe I'll get a chance to use it soon. Links to this post. Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Not so fast, Otaku. What about Goldman Sachs or BP? For models, I ...
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FloorSweepings: June 2010
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Wednesday, June 16, 2010. If your company is just starting to talk about "agiling up" it's software process, my advice is to forget about timeboxed iterations and test driven development. Oh yes, those are good things, and they can enable agile software development, but let's be very clear: if the team isn't self-directed, cross-functional and respecting of its people, it's not Agile software development. It's . something else. Read the whole thing.
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FloorSweepings: Asymmetric Lock-in
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Monday, December 17, 2012. That's what I call a policy of certain agencies or individual recruiters whereby candidates are told that if they are sent on an interview they must commit up front to accepting an offer in case one is made. An example of asymmetric lock-in (first item). What makes this lock-in asymmetric is that the client company is never committed to making an offer in the interview. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8th Light - Home.
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FloorSweepings: Developers are not freakin' engineers - Part 2
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Developers are not freakin' engineers - Part 2. Part 1: Developers are not freakin' engineers. Agile2015, which I can only afford to follow from a distance, came up with what looks like a new meme: Agile is improv. And there's more that supports my assertion here. Having spent time on the improv scene, I think the comparison is apt. I'm gonna play with the metaphor. 2 Engineering:SW Development: Stagefighting:Acting.
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FloorSweepings: May 2010
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Friday, May 21, 2010. Agile Manifesto Reprise - This Time it's Personal. Stole this from Ron Jeffries. And I'm posting the whole thing cuz it's my story too except for maybe the cars:. Where will YOU be in 3 years? Well, in my case I want to be alive and in good mental and physical. Looking back over various places I might have "wanted" to be, here's. What I think today:. I thought I wanted promotions, to be given more "power" as a. Improving....
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FloorSweepings: August 2015
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is 99% perspiration. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Developers are not freakin' engineers - Part 2. Part 1: Developers are not freakin' engineers. Agile2015, which I can only afford to follow from a distance, came up with what looks like a new meme: Agile is improv. And there's more that supports my assertion here. Having spent time on the improv scene, I think the comparison is apt. I'm gonna play with the metaphor. 2 Engineering:SW Development: Stagefighting:Acting.
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