Tag Archives: agile

Leading Through a Team

I was reading an article on HBR about leading through a team and it made some good points about how micro-management will kill the team, and the difference between a work group and a team. Tweet

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Agile Project Management

Agile, as tied to the Agile Manifesto, is 10 years old. Everyone and their brother wants to apply agile to their area of work now. But what does it really mean to become more agile in project management? Tweet

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Continuous Integration to improve Agile Process

We all know that we want more continuous integration, and that flexibility needs to be increased in the environment. But how does one do it and what is the median in the wider setting? Tweet

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Organizational Change Models

Nilofer Merchant writes a series on how business models have not sufficiently changed in response to social-era changes. Tweet

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Tmux for shared sessions for collaboration

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer that allows a number of terminals to be created, accessed and controlled from a single screen. You can attach and detach from a screen. It uses a client-server model, with the server holding multiple sessions … Continue reading

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Agile Portfolio Management

Rally has been starting a series looking at agile applied to enterprise portfolio management. The first installment was an interview with Eric Ries on his book The Lean Startup which I found a very interesting discussion and worth your while … Continue reading

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Conditions for success by hard coding

I was reading the latest IEEE Software and came across a piece by Grady Booch that I wanted to capture here and reflect upon. The piece is mainly about his experience with systems that grow in complexity over time and … Continue reading

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Strategic Grief and How To Innovate Out Of It

A neat piece on the five stages of strategic grief and how to leverage it to get into innovating out of the problem. The five stages are detailed: denial, anger, rationalization, depression and through to acceptance, when the organization can … Continue reading

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Practitioner Conference for UX/UI/Testers

SDTConf 2012 is at the University of Houston during April 27-29, 2012. SDTConf is an all open space conference providing software practitioners a platform to meet face-to-face and discuss/demonstrate simple design testing principles/approaches. At this conference you’ll meet real, hands-on … Continue reading

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Technical debt as quality and cost metrics

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about technical debt lately, and found a couple of interesting pieces trying work out the concept in terms of quality and cost. Tweet

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