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The Pathfinder: Reaching Your Organization’s Goal
My soap box… no, really…
Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka - Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban
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Improving Our Industry: Its Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward
For so long there have been so many advocating the benefits of the various Agile, Lean, Iterative, or whatever-you-want-to-call-it-these-days methodologies. We, as software developers, seem to understand the benefits of these methods. So why, then, do...
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Tue, Jan 01 2009 11:59 AM
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The Pathfinder: Reaching Your Organization’s Goal
Imagine that there are three group of people going out for a hike. Within each group of people, we have a goal of everyone reaching a picnic table at the end of the hike (and no one can eat until everyone has arrived). One of the people in each group...
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Mon, Jan 01 2009 1:41 PM
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My soap box… no, really…
My coworkers really do love me. This was their Christmas present for me, complete with shiny bow. I was told to use it only for good, not for evil. And yes, that is me preaching from my soap box. :)
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Fri, Dec 12 2008 10:23 AM
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Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka - Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban
Let's assume that we are doing the appropriate amount of testing during our development process. If we include TDD, test automation, test engineers and customer acceptance testing, we should find the majority of the bugs in our system before they...
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Fri, Dec 12 2008 8:46 AM
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Professionalism And Thermodynamics
For the last month or so, I've been having a serious problem with the apparent lack of professionalism in the software development industry as a whole. There are many factors contributing to this and many different aspects of the problem. I'm...
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