Software effort forecasting made easy with getguesstimate.com @getguesstimate Great tool for #NoEstimates
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Highly recommend “Activity Sampling” by @ralfw medium.com/@ralfw/activity-s…
There are different dimensions to feedback in agile projects: buff.ly/2sHYftF Bonus: a checklist at the end of the article :-)
Also: We build software in the image of our companies as micro-managing command and control hierarchies. teapawt.net/CodeWisdom/status/8822…
That’s why people expect a career and not personal development. They are looking for a job, not an opportunity for mastery. teapawt.net/flowchainsensei/status…
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“Microservices aren’t simply a waste of time or a distraction. They actually make things worse.” -- @aadrake b.mamund.com/2rlyof2
A new category should be added here under „Accidents & external": static.guim.co.uk/sys-images… Just to put terrorism in perspective. teapawt.net/sillypunk/status/87128…
Nothing more futile more than attacking London. #Londoners survived the Romans, plague, fire, Blitz, Olympics and Boris Johnson as mayor.
Blogged: Stratified Design over Layered Design, ccd-school.de/2017/06/strati… How to avoid the pitfalls of functional dependencies.
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One of the most important leadership principles: Be the change you want to see! You want X? Then show how you yourself achieve X in ur work
The parts can never comprehend the whole during their actions. They cannot reason about it. So they need hard and fast local „guidelines“. teapawt.net/GoldrattBooks/status/8…
“The purpose of measurements is to motivate the parts to do what is good for the organization as a whole.” —Eli Goldratt #tocot
About the price of interruptions and distractions at the workplace: medium.com/@wbelk/office-dis… If costs are important to you measure this.
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Peter Drucker: “Effective knowledge workers [...] do not start with their tasks. They start with their time.”, betterhumans.coach.me/peter-…
What an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect :-D teapawt.net/Aeana/status/861299124…
„It’s the interactions, stupid!“ Interactions between ppl and between ppl and code. Focus improvement efforts on patterns of conflict. teapawt.net/jessitron/status/86098…
Why is changing software so hard? look deeper than Agile, TDD, Tech debt. Get real data. blog.jessitron.com/2017/05/c…
Implicit programming is great (m.signalvnoise.com/programmi…) - if you’re willing to continually communicate and learn.
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Continuous Integration isn't just for code. #ModernAgile – at California, USA
