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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 is that the results of the work is far more important than when or where they work. This is something I have given a great deal of thought to and agree with in principle. However, the focus here is on the individual. What if the individual works on a team?
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Agile Open Northwest 2008 - Mar. 18-19 in Seattle, WA
Here is a flyer for your office
I attended AONW last year and had a fabulous time. It was great to reconnect with some of the local practitioners and have some really interesting conversations and be introduced to new idea. If you can make it I would highly recommend attending this year. Remember, attendance is limited to the first 100 people, so sign up soon! Look me up and I'll buy you a frosty beverage of your choice. -
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.
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It's Not OK To Skip The Standup
Travis has a great post on why It's Not OK To Skip The Standup.
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Do You Twitter?
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$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.
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30 Second Estimating
After reading posts by David Anderson and Amit Rathore I started to examine why we were estimating, how much time we were spending at it, the psychic cost, and the results. The results were not encouraging.
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Agile PM Tools (self-Hosted)
Update: I've created a site to compare and review agile tools.
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Added Wrike to the list of Agile PM tools
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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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Agile PM Tools (Hosted)
Update: I've created a site to compare and review agile tools.
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Continuous Production - Production-ready software…any time
The guys from Stelligent have another great post. This time on Continuous Production, the next step after Continuous Integration.
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No More Iterations
We've committed to iteration-less pull based software development starting on Monday for one of my teams. A number of factors led up to this decision, not to mention the vast amount of discussion I had with my project managers.