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Comment on Yelp Wobegon, where every review is above average by Another Bad Survey | themeat.org

Another Bad Survey | themeat.org — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:47:33 +0000

[...] If the scale is 0 to 3, then I’d say 1 is below average (0, 1, Average, 2, 3). But no, 1 is "good." Can you say "positive bias?" [...]

Comment on The perils of asking “why?” by Lem

Lem — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:59:35 +0000

Good article. I agree with a lot of things you said. Thanks for putting this up, I always felt many people who ask "why" were very passive aggressive but could never describe the behavior except that it wasn't the best approach and it has been a pet peeve of mine.

Comment on On the death of Steve Jobs by Rishi Satsangi

Rishi Satsangi — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:23:19 +0000

Well written, I fully agree. At the same time, I am preparing to purchase a macbookpro because I prefer that 13" versus any other laptop on the market for developing at venues that aren't my apartment

Comment on Chapter 4: Defensive Office Furniture Placement Theory by Your office layout can tell you a lot about your workforce | San Diego Cubicles Blog

Wed, 18 May 2011 23:36:14 +0000

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Comment on You’re not agile (redux) by dave

dave — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:27:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment Indy, and thanks for recording the session as well! At my session, we were fortunate enough to have a great participant document everything (if I remember correctly, she's a knowledge base author professionally), then I polished it a bit afterwards. Thankfully it was already very complete so I didn't have much work to do :) As for the diversity of people at that conference, I was really impressed with that too. I'm not sure how those people heard about the conference or why they decided to go, but I definitely enjoyed the variety of opinions and professions there. Hopefully next year will be bigger and better!

Comment on You’re not agile (redux) by Indy

Indy — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:21:27 +0000

It was a great session, thanks for having it. Wanted to point out that the audio recording I took is linked off the infocamp wiki. Feel free to repost that link here or grab the file and upload it to your site. I'm declaring it public domain and we did ask permission of the room before recording. It isn't a great recording, but it is serviceable and picked up your voice and most of the voices of the participants. It is 53:47 long and 39MB. I'm also impressed at the thoroughness of wiki documentation and how quickly that documentation got put up. You'd almost think there were professional information handlers/document writers taking the notes. How did the conference manage to attract those sorts of people?

Comment on You’re not agile (redux) by dave

dave — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:24:20 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Ben. You make a good point - I should be clearer which values and principles are agile versus not agile. Maybe a better way to phrase it is "agile development is when you follow the principles of the agile manifesto in creating a better development team in your organization." Or maybe "Agile development is when you finally come to your wits and decide that democracy is a better form of organization than communism." :)

Comment on You’re not agile (redux) by Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:23:20 +0000

I love the post! ... but I disagree with your definition. "Agile development is a set of values and principles for improving your development teams' alignment with your organization's needs." Too many things fit that. Shorter waterfall duration. Making engineers sign off on specifications. Replacing your architecture with something that is easier to build new features on. I propose one level more specific/prescriptive: "Agile is a exchange made between an organization and the engineers building the product: In exchange for radically increased visibility into engineering's overall and individual progress, engineers can self-determine the tasks they choose to work on." This more naturally leads to the ceremony common in SCRUM - standups, backlogs, burn-down charts, etc.

Comment on The Love by dave

dave — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:43:57 +0000

Thanks, Keith -- I'd love to hear what you have to say about it! And as for Vegas, what happened there stays there, even if it happened at the airport :)

Comment on The Love by keith

keith — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:00:37 +0000

dave, your words make a lot of sense to me. i have much more to say on that subject in the future... say, did i see you once on a plane on the way back from vegas? :)