The More Things Change In Programming The More They Remain The Same
Software that used to take minutes to complete a full build now start with fetching from the repository and may require an hour or more to build.
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Falling Prey to a Simple Message
The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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How To Do Agile Estimation The Right Way
What had worked for us? Velocity, or better stated, the methodology behind velocity, the average. It always drove people crazy that I'd use averages on my projects.
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A Software Version Of Himself
“What RevUp really is,” says Joe Rospars, an Obama campaign veteran who founded Blue State Digital (a partner and investor in RevUp), “is a software version of Steve himself. He’s put his personality and experience into code.” Steve Spinner Just Fixed The Worst Thing About...
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Your Project Plan Does Not Describe Our Real Project
What is in the tool and described in the views is an attempt to model a project, but as I said, it is NOT the project.
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Delaying Projects — Lessons Learned From Electronic Arts
Two years ago, Electronic Arts, the second-largest U.S. video game company, ran on promises. … Several of EA’s biggest 2013 releases, including entries in its SimCity and Battlefield franchises, were so bug-ridden on release that they crashed game servers and were essentially unplayable for days...
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Can We Be Flat Out Wrong Two Weeks Before Project Completion?
I thought I was getting the best information from the best experts, but clearly that didn’t go well. If I had a magic wand ....
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Keeping Up Is Fundamentally Hard
The trick here is to learn as we go.
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Duh! Just Match Our Promises To Our Capability
Too many organizations just do it backwards.
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Why We Need To Measure And Understand First And Then Decide What To Do
The VP went ballistic when I reported that it took us one minute on average to review each product defect. She simply did not like working with facts.
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How To Stay A Step Ahead By Not Trying Real Hard
If we believe really hard, we certainly should be able to reduce our time by 33%! Maybe, but not by going for it all at once. Here is how we did it.
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When A Successful Product Can Be A Bad Thing
It was a bit strange. Here we had a fairly successful product but I almost found myself wishing it had not been. What was wrong with me?
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Are We Just Duplicating Our Problems?
Those darn quality testers kept reporting the same issues, over and over again. This duplicate defect reporting was causing more issues than it was fixing!
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Project Managers How To Adopt The Language Of Your Customer
How we came to better understand our customer's challenges and how it helped us to better help them.
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Can Your IT Project Manager Sell Better Than Sales?
Technical folks often look more like the customer than the sales and marketing folks I’ve worked with. Let’s take a real world example to add some perspective.
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