James Starmer (@starmer) profile picture

Software Engineer

Baltimore, MD
Joined July 2007
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Got a capacitive touch hat for my #raspberrypi @adafruit makes awesome stuff! moby.to/v4oplf
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Had a great time at north county high school yesterday #nchsopportunityhack
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Pleasantly surprised that @WoodyZuill is presenting the mob programming talk at #JavaOne
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Conducted an interview using pair programming. It was awesome!
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Retrospective Closing Activity: Smilies on the Door jamesstarmer.com/blog/retrop…
James Starmer retweeted
100% code coverage "@bloerwald: SUCCESS: 26/26 (100%) Tests passed http://t.co/pmw7DiiRp2"
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Birthday gift from my wife, collage of my kids as Leia and Luke, awesome.
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Extremely happy and proud of my team. Our first sprint sharing dev and tester roles was a success!
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Thinking about how to do a walking retro. Not sure how some of the standard retro activities would work outside on the move with 12+ people
Ran a retro with these activities: plans-for-retrospectives.com… it went really well.
If development is like a road, the end of a sprint feels like a stop light. I wish it was just a roundabout so we could keep moving.
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James Starmer retweeted
When you have fixed time and unclear scope, burndown charts usually become burnout charts.
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Going to start gathering data around my team's mood this sprint: github.com/starmer/niko
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Reading Clean Code again, "LeBlanc’s law: Later equals never."
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1c. milk, 1c. cream, 1/2c. milk chocolate chips. instagram.com/p/iwUVAUPvVE/
QOTD Managers: When one of your talented people does something dumb, don’t blame them Instead, ask yourself what context you failed to set.
If unanswered/unacknowledged questions are a sign of a dysfunctional team, does the same apply to meetings?