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Essays from October 2010

2 essays from October 2010

  1. What can we learn from illusions that helps us manage projects better?

    Just had the opportunity to watch a BBC documentary about illusions. The show went on to detail how we as humans get deceived by our own senses. There were 3 things that opened my eyes in that documentary: The things that caused me to think were: when we mix senses one of them tends to …

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  2. Short multimedia review of LESS 2010 conference

    The LESS 2010 conference just ended on a positive note of shared knowledge, bridge building between different communities and celebration of great work in the area of Software Development. LESS was started with a great ambition of combining, from the starting point three different communities globally. Those communities were the Agile community, which is focused …

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