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Essays from November 2008
7 essays from November 2008
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Why Apple deserves to sell many iPods/iTouch (or Why MUST features will kill your project…)
So lately I’ve been trying to convince some friends that they don’t want to have “MUST” features in their project, rather they should opt for a force-ranked prioritization of all features that they want to deliver. First off, I must explain this idea. You do still have a minimum marketable content for your product. If …
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The Skill issue, the industry shame
I was reading Jason’s blog when I came across this post. I could not agree more. Way too many times I bump into problems that can be traced directly to the idea that you can hire just anyone, with any skill level and they will perform to the expected level of professionalism. This is pure …
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The thing you always wanted…
… Running Quake 3 on your Nokia mobile phone! Your commutes just became fun!
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Agile Finlandissima is organizing another great gathering, don’t miss it!
Agile Finland will organize another cool gathering for the community. This time we have Marko Taipale and Jeff Sutherland plus a cool dinner with the most agile people around in the country! Check out the announcement and registration form
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Beware of the ignorant consultants, beware of LAME
So I was listening to the OnSoftware podcast (which is, by the way, a very bad podcast, so bad I’m not even linking to it!). In one of the latest episodes (actually 2 episodes) Jean Tabaka was interviewed. Jean now works with Rally Software and apparently (according to her, in that podcast) is facing the …
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Note to self, use more simulations…
Great simulation description by Elisabeth Hendrickson, and I’ve got great first-hand feedback from this simulation. I can’t wait to see it live! Check out the post here.
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The next step, Agile hungover
So, it is starting to happen. All around us we see people like James Shore or Rob Bowley proclaiming the end of Scrum, that we don’t really get it and that many teams do cycles, but forget about the rest. If you have been following the different waves of software process adoption this should be …
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