I am vaguely disorganized. No, please don’t jump out of your seat and tell me that I “Have” to get more organized. I don’t buy it. I’ve run a successful […]
Read MoreInterview with Chad Fowler
I’ve blogged a bit about a presentation Chad Fowler made to XPWestMichiga two weeks back. There were several interesting points on marketing yourself and choosing a career in technology. Eventually, […]
Read MoreChristmas Tree Shoppin’ …
Imagine: You bundle up the kids and drive ten miles to the Christmas tree farm. Before you can park your car, a young man greets you, asking you to roll […]
Read MoreScaling Knowledge work …
Ron Jeffries has an interesting article on a project he is currently working on. I read the article and responded to the XP E-mail list; here’s a copy of the […]
Read MoreXP, Dear XP …
Extreme Programming in Japan? You’ve got to see this video. Don’t worry, it has subtitles, and it’s only three minutes long.
Read MoreA few of my favorite things – III
I promise to talk about testing tools, so next up is a DigitalVoice Recorder with PC Link. This particular model records and transfers to PC in WAV format, which can […]
Read MoreTest Estimation
I thought my recent post to the Agile-Testing Discussion list was worth repeating. Here goes: Earlier, Lisa Crispin said Test Estimation was hard, and asked if anyone had a perfect […]
Read MoreA Few Of My Favorite Things – II
If you watch enough presentations, you start to see things that detract from the message. The speaker has to plug in, power up, and press control-shift-F9 a bunch of times. […]
Read MoreCanary in a Coal Mine
There is an interesting talk in Info.com by Ken Schwaber. Ken is a co-author of the agile manifesto and co-inventor of Scrum. If you don’t want to listen for an […]
Read MoreA few of my favorite things – I
I’d like to start a short series on my favorite tools. No fluff, just stuff. Tool #1: Google Reader. This is like TiVo for blogs. You search for, find, and […]
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