December 23, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry, Practices
Jens Meydam asked “What do you really care about in Scrum?” I decided to answer, instead, “What do you think is really essential in Scrum-style software development?
December 23, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
Have all your desired features or make an exact date. What’s so hard about that?
October 16, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
Some good people[1], plus Chet and I, met in Ann Arbor the week of October 12 2009, to discuss Agile Team Member qualification. The outcome: The Agile Skills Project.
October 2, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
I just thought I’d make a page with links that may be worth exploring. If you have some, let me know. I have not explored all of these, nor, probably, have you. That’s why I’m listing them.
October 2, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
Here are a few links relating to collocation, thanks to Adrian Howard and others.
September 28, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
Things in the skills development area have changed in some
interesting ways. We have room for a few more people who want tocontribute to our proposed session in Ann Arbor.
September 10, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
Scrum luminaries freely grant the necessity for good developer practices, and the Scrum Alliance is thinking about developer certification. Some important people in the community are involved, and so am I. Read on …
September 8, 2009
Categories:
Hot Needle of Inquiry
Extreme Programming used to have a very specific meaning. It still has a fairly specific meaning. Scrum still has a fairly specific meaning. It, too, has drifted a bit over time. It is natural that terms drift a bit as…
An associate sent me a note pointing out that a domain, southwesthosting.net belonging to Phillip Robinson included a large amount of my copyrighted material.
I sent him a polite note asking him to remove it, followed by an official…
Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.
Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.
Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let’s think about it a bit.
Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.