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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:53 AM

How to delete bugs in Bugzilla

Good description of the trick to delete bugs in Bugzilla.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:30 PM

Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

Tom DeMarco, arguably one of the key thinkers when it comes to how we develop software has been reflecting. My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982), played a role...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:12 PM

12 Learnings From My First Turn As Startup CEO

Jason Goldberg has a great post on some of the things he learned while CEO of Jobster.com . The CEO's job is to create value. Try to ride some powerful existing waves vs. just creating new waves. Technology companies are all about the product. Related...
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Monday, March 03, 2008 9:34 AM

Ten Reasons High-Tech Companies Fail

Planning on starting your own company? Here are some good points to consider from High Tech Strategies - Ten Reasons High-Tech Companies Fail Lack of Market Focus Excessive Pace of Product Improvement Incomplete Products Undifferentiated Products Channel...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:14 PM

Production vs. Attendance on Teams

Jeffrey Phillips wrote a nice post on Accountable for production not attendance . In it he argues that most knowledge workers should be treated like virtual workers – they should be held accountable for their production, not their attendance. The implication...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 4:04 PM

Expedited Stories

I mentioned in my No More Iterations post that we didn't really know how support requests were going to affect the overall system. As is often the case I didn't have to wait long to find out. Within days of moving to the limited WIP approach we got a...
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Monday, February 11, 2008 9:31 AM

$1,000 of Free Consulting Advice

One of my staff (Aaron) found this great post from David Bock called the 7 Question Project Health Check . The only thing I'd add is start working on this today ! If you want to know why, start adding up the cost of not doing it. How long will it take...
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Friday, February 08, 2008 11:00 AM

30 Second Estimating

In my initial post No More Iterations I mentioned that estimating was a factor in the change we were making. Specifically: Story size was difficult to estimate and kept crossing iteration boundaries. The programmers really didn't see the value of estimating...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:01 PM

It's okay to THINK for Yourself

I can't really add anything to Geoff's post . Go read it and apply it.
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Monday, October 08, 2007 10:55 AM

Jim Highsmith on the Chaos reports

Max Wideman got permission to reprint Jim Highsmith's article The Chaos Report - Reality Challenged . Jim takes on the Chaos report for their definitions of success and failure. This is something that has bothered me for years. I've been on several "failed...
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