- Agile Development Doesn’t Work « Think Different
"So what is the common denominator for successful delivery of great software products? People. Engaged, committed people. [...] If you buy into this, then everything else pales into insignificance. Agile doesn’t matter, Waterfall doesn’t matter, processes in general don’t matter. [...] If we are going to argue (and I can’t see that ending anytime soon) then should we not be arguing about how to get the best out of people? (By which, I mean, “how to arrange circumstances such that people can come together and discover what fulfilment means to each of them personally?”. How best to organise and arrange the work such that, as Herzberg demands, we ensure that “people have good jobs to do”?" (motivation people dopost waterfall process agile )
- A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney – NYTimes.com
"It doesn’t matter whether it’s a proton, neutron or Mormon: the act of observing cannot be separated from the outcome of the observation. By asking Mitt Romney how he feels about an issue, you unavoidably affect how he feels about it. More precisely, Mitt Romney will feel every possible way about an issue until the moment he is asked about it, at which point the many feelings decohere into the single answer most likely to please the asker." (quantum_physics humour politics usa mitt_romney )
- Software Development Today: Story Points Considered Harmful – Or why the future of estimation is really in our past…
"So, which is it? Do we have a complex environment in software development or not? If we do then we cannot – at the same time – argue for estimation (and build a whole religion on it)! In contrast, if we are not in a complex environment we cannot then claim that Scrum – with it’s focus on solving a problem in the complex domain – can work!" (agile scrum estimation dopost )
- Agile Coaches Gathering UK Write-up · eveningcoders · Storify
"A brief write up of the things I took away with me from the Agile Coaches Gathering on 23/24 March 2012 at the TCS Offices in London." (dopost coaching agile )
- How 3D wireframes help UX and Agile work better at the Guardian
Dated 1 April 2012. Definitely one of the better ones. (dopost agile wireframing april_fool 3d )
- Not an April Fool – Charlie’s Diary
"There is an app, currently on the Apple app store as a free download, called Girls Around Me. A couple of days ago, computer journalist John Brownlee wrote an essay about it explaining why he found it disturbing. I'd like to propose that it is symptomatic of a really major side-effect of our forced acculturation into Facebook's broken model of human social interaction" (sharing dopost app facebook privacy )
- Even I’m starting to wonder: what do this lot know about anything? – Telegraph
"But now that I have heard the Conservatives’ private explanation [of stoking the fuel crisis], which is being handed down to constituency associations by MPs, I begin to feel angry. The private message is as follows. “This is our Thatcher moment. In order to defeat the coming miners’ strike, she stockpiled coal. When the strike came, she weathered it, and the Labour Party, tarred by the strike, was humiliated. In order to defeat the coming fuel drivers’ strike, we want supplies of petrol stockpiled. Then, if the strike comes, we will weather it, and Labour, in hock to the Unite union, will be blamed.”" (strikes fuel conservatives unions politics )
- A VC: Coming Of Age
"[Young VCs] make rookie mistakes. They let a reporter hang out with them for a week thinking they can trust them. They talk when they should be listening. They overpay for deals thinking that will win the deal for them. They use their phones in board meetings. They fight with entrepreneurs over meaningless things." (professionalism learning dopost vcs )
- Unpaid bloggers’ lawsuit vs Huffington Post tossed
Sense prevails: "AOL Inc on Friday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by unpaid bloggers who complained they were deprived of their fair share of the roughly $315 million that the company paid last March to buy The Huffington Post website. [...US District Judge John] Koeltl said "no one forced" the bloggers to repeatedly provide their work with no expectation of being paid, and said they got what they bargained for when their works were published." (dopost legal huffington_post )
- HMRC awards IE6 upgrade contract to SME and saves £50m
"HM Revenue & Customs has cut the cost of an IT upgrade by up to £50m by awarding a contract to a start-up IT company, rather than a major systems integrator." (government browsers internet_explorer dopost procurement )
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