“Part-timers just don’t seem to fit in with the team,” a manager
complained recently. “I do everything I can to impress on them the
importance of...
1 replies - 1059 views - 04/26/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
I've written about Conway's Law before (Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?”)...
2 replies - 5487 views - 03/14/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles
ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner
Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...
0 replies - 298 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized
Management love their metrics. The thinking goes something like this, "We need a number to measure how we’re doing. Numbers focus people and help us measure...
0 replies - 3205 views - 02/20/13 by Patrick Kua in Articles
Because “technical debt” has the word “debt” in it, many people have decided that it makes sense to think and work with technical debt in monetary...
3 replies - 5953 views - 02/05/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...
0 replies - 331 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized
Most companies have policies that govern the selection and hiring
process for new employees. Not a bad thing. But I’ve noticed that in
many of the...
0 replies - 984 views - 01/18/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
While the methods of project saboteurs are similar, any project in the wild may encounter very different kinds of saboteurs. The Project Saboteur Taxonomy is...
0 replies - 10384 views - 01/17/13 by Anders Abel in Articles
A different approach is needed
"Working software over comprehensive documentation" is what the Manifesto for Agile Software Development says and it's...
0 replies - 2212 views - 01/16/13 by Simon Brown in Articles
Is Product Management different when your product is an API? How do the key people in the API value chain set the tone for product management of APIs?...
0 replies - 1365 views - 01/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Vivek Haldir’s recent post Quantum of Work
points out something obvious in retrospect: programming is
intrinsically fractured. It does little good to...
1 replies - 995 views - 01/07/13 by John Cook in Articles
0 replies - 1679 views - 01/03/13 by Abby Fichtner in Articles
Extrinsic Motivation
In
2001 American energy and services company Enron collapsed into
bankruptcy. Apparently, its managers liked their...
1 replies - 4456 views - 11/13/12 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
You know by now that Code Inventory
is something of an obsession with me. Like it or not, most of us,
whether developers or sysadmins, work in a service...
0 replies - 5117 views - 10/14/12 by Daniel Ackerson in Articles
Project management is something that we all have to deal with, and there are dozens of tools out there to try to simplify the process. Determining which of...
0 replies - 5655 views - 10/04/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
