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The flawed rhetoric about “Scrum” and “Organizational Dysfunction”
One of the most bizarre, yet highly touted, “features” of Scrum is that it “exposes Organizational Dysfunction”. Not mere team based, project based, or even departmental dysfunction, but Organizational Dysfunction … enterprise wide. Now this is crazy on so many … Continue reading
The High Cost of Emergent Design/Subsequent Refactorings
In my previous post, I demonstrated that even with a lowered cost of change curve, change is still expensive. But, you might say, OK, we agree with that, so we’ll try to do more up front analysis and try to … Continue reading
Moving Beyond Technical Elitism
Improving the quality of discourse amongst IT professionals is crucial to regaining the Respect that IT deserves. The current debate techniques often used by varying camps are harmful to IT’s Image and Credibility and harmful to broadening the knowledge and … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, apple, bill gates, css, dynamic languages, entrepreneurship, hiring, java, jobs, linux, macintosh, mysql, php, rails, ruby, scrum, smalltalk, static typing, steve jobs, VC, windows
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Fairly Evaluting Consultant Versus Full Time Rates, Part I
Any Consultant will Frequently be engaged in rate discussions with potential clients. Many times these are hiring managers, not HR folks. Sometimes, these hiring managers expect consultants to work for the same hourly rate a full timer would perform the … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, coaching, consultants, consulting, contracting, crystal, css, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, finance, flash, hiring, hr, html, interviewing, java, jobs, php, resume, resumes, ruby, scrum, xp
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What to do when Scrum/XP isn’t working in your shop?
By this time, probably at least a few shops have given a try to Agile and Scrum. For some, things have probably been going fine. For others, perhaps not so fine. What to do when Agile/Scrum isn’t working for your … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, asp.net, c#, extreme programming, java, ruby, scrum, winforms, xp
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Are you charging too little?
I found a great little list over at Freelance Switch. http://freelanceswitch.com/humour/top-ten-signs-you-may-be-charging-too-little/ One of my favorites: Number 6: Clients pay your invoices in cash from their wallet. Also check out: http://freelanceswitch.com/humour/top-ten-signs-you-may-be-charging-too-much/ Number 9: You’re still living off a job you … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, c#, consultants, consulting, contracting, contractors, flash, freelance, freelancing, hiring, html, interviews, java, jobs, perl, ruby, work
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Minimize Data Transformations to Achieve Higher Performance
Often times, applications are created with an emphasis being placed on shortness of development time; performance is not looked at until fairly late in the game, and at that point rectifying the situation can and often does prove costly in … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, c#, design patterns, extreme programming, Hibernate, java, linq, nhibernate, orm, performance, rails, ruby, software architecture, xp
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