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Good decisions, bad decisions
Once Kent Beck wrote: doing good engineering is not primarily making good decisions, it's seeking good feedback which lets you quickly discard bad decisions— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) January 13, 2012 So...
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Why internal IT projects fail – relaoded
Lately I’ve blogged about internal IT projects that do fail and one of the main reasons: lack of Product Owner (Why big projects fail in corporate IT). Today let me emphasize another major reason:...
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Return on Agility, return on Cloud
Do you agree? + operational advantages such as setting up infrastructure in minutes rather than months, completing massive computational projects with a large number of resources quickly, and scaling...
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Italian Agile Day 2012 #IAD12
The Italian Agile Day 2012 will take place in Milan on November, 24th at the University of Milan. The program is ready: full of interesting lighting talks (10′), std talks (45′) and workshops (90′)....
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Stratos and checklists
For the fan of checklists here is a picture from the Red Bull Stratos mission: anything interesting in the background of this picture? Filed under: Agile
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10xFaster? Here is how-to!
Courtesy of gluemoon, Some Rights Reserved I remember when I did the keynote at XP2007 and someone told me: “amazing how fast you go in your company, I’m happy my users are not asking me to go that...
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In 2001 traditional management had the idea that …
Back in 2001, traditional management had the idea that if everything was documented, things would work out fine. via Innovation: Applying “Inspect & Adapt” To The Agile Manifesto – Forbes. Three...
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WDD: a new development paradigm
We will talk about a new development technique called WDD or Worries Driven Development. You might know another couple of *DD techniques: TDD and DDD but they are by far less powerful than WDD. TDD or...
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No standard testing? Are you crazy?
IT people is often scared when I say that I don’t like the traditional testing phase in IT projects. I understand, it’s so relaxing to know that you have a bunch of people to blame when projects go the...
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Metrics are good … if you know when to ignore them
A manager has to know when to ignore a precise number. “He has to know that ‘larger’ and ‘smaller,’ ‘earlier’ and ‘later,’ ‘up’ and ‘down’ are quantitative terms and often more accurate, indeed more...
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Estimates can be a tricky … in various ways
People turn estimates into targets. Meeting the target becomes the de facto goal and the de facto method. Meeting needs fades in priority via esther derby associates, inc. » /Estimating/ is often...
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Rethink the management rules to suit today’s business conditions
when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology...
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Stop Starting and Start Finishing
Limiting the number of projects a team is working on – making the team do less – does not have to reduce productivity and can actually deliver more via agile42 | Stop Starting and Start Finishing....
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Of cloud, aerospace and defense
It’s ironic that two industries who are highly reliant on collaboration often have the most siloed legacy systems, processes and IT infrastructures. As one aerospace executive told me recently, the...
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Why do companies invest in application development?
Most large companies invest heavily in application development, and they do so for a compelling reason: their future might depend on it via Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of application...
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The (agile) devil is in the details
It’s been said that agile BI is simple but not easy. That is, the concept of working in short iterations, delivering your BI system in small increments, and evolving the solution based on feedback is...
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How to be a better programmer
I’m happy to share something that Kent Beck shared with us answering to the post TDD is dead. Long live testing. What’s I love of Kent’s notes is the fact that he indirectly did a list of the top...
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WDD: a new development paradigm
We will talk about a new development technique called WDD or Worries Driven Development. You might know another couple of *DD techniques: TDD and DDD but they are by far less powerful than WDD. TDD or...
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Of cloud, aerospace and defense
It’s ironic that two industries who are highly reliant on collaboration often have the most siloed legacy systems, processes and IT infrastructures. As one aerospace executive told me recently, the...
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