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Essays from March 2007

2 essays from March 2007

  1. The law of immediate action on productivity

    In Software as in other activities quantity is not a synonym with quality. Here’s what I mean:It is very common for people to think that if they find a lot of bugs in a software before it is released that they know more about the quality level of their software. Normally that requires that you …

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  2. Agile is changing, is “Lean” the next word?

    Kallokian seems to think so, even if he does use the “lean” word. Which is probably good, taking into account the “post-agilism” discussion ongoing now 🙂 Here it is, another article I wish I had written.

    1 min read

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