Is Apple "Agile"? Part 2: The Critics Weigh In – Forbes"[There is a common Agile] mindset that if we can just get the teams working really, really well, and create really great workspaces with really energized workers, then everything will work out ok. The teams will produce great products. Customers will love those products. The [...]
Why is Nigel Farage on Question Time so often?"If it feels as if Nigel Farage is rarely off Question Time, that's because he isn't. The UKIP leader is a "late addition" to tonight's panel in what will be his third appearance this year (the most recent was 25 April). In fact, after tonight, Farage will have [...]
jmhofer / ant4sbt / wiki / Home — Bitbucket"This SBT plug-in enables you to integrate Ant targets and Ant properties with your xsbt build." (scala ant sbt ) Tracing iOS 7′s influences: Apple remixes almost everyone in the industry | The Verge"Apple's latest iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS 7, introduces a number of [...]
“It’s Complicated…” | InspGuilfoyleHow HMRC works. (systems_thinking hmrc security dopost ) Cowards | Uncrunched"Today we heard from Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Page was confused (the title of his post is “What the…?). Zuckerberg claimed the press reports were outrageous. Both made strong denials of specific allegations (“direct access,” “back doors”). [...]
Primer on the Theory of Constraints (theory_of_constraints presentation flow ) The Flow Experiment | AvailAgility"I put together a small simulation for the SPA Conference this year which seemed to go well [...] The basic aim of the simulation is to solve maths problems. This idea was inspired by Simon Bennett and Mark Summers session The [...]
Obama Is Checking Your EmailOne of many from the Obama/PRISM archive. (prism humour barak_obama dopost security ) Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm"A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate [...]
Evidence Based Scheduling – Joel on SoftwareHow Joel O'Software does estimation now: "Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules. It’s called Evidence-Based [...]
The Homophobatron – creating nonsensical anti-gay marriage arguments so you don’t have to… – Us Vs Th3m"Creating nonsensical anti-gay marriage arguments so politicians don't have to" (humour homophobia ) The great gender divide: Girls don’t recognise tech as key « Emma Mulqueeny"Why are only 29% of girls as opposed to 42% of boys identifying technology [...]
The Germ theory of Management by Myron Tribus [pdf]"Doctors are no better and no worse than the rest of us. We are all prisoners of our upbringing, our culture and the state of knowledge of our teachers, mentors and fellow practitioners. [...] Their theory of medicine caused them to look in the wrong places for [...]
The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ – NYTimes.comJulian Assange on Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen's book: "In the book the authors happily take up the white geek’s burden. A liberal sprinkling of convenient, hypothetical dark-skinned worthies appear: Congolese fisherwomen, graphic designers in Botswana, anticorruption activists in San Salvador and illiterate Masai cattle herders in the [...]
