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Article: Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them

(Why your daily stand-ups don’t work and how to fix them) Model: 5 heuristics you’re doing stand-ups wrong symptoms which indicate you’re doing your stand-ups in the wrong way, for the wrong reasons: Heuristic: Stand-ups take more than 15-minutes Heuristic: People talk about their work instead of talking about goals Heuristic: People stop showing up regularly Heuristic: People talk to their manager (or “scrum master”) instead of talking to their peers Heuristic: If the manager or “scrum master” can’t show up, the stand-up doesn’t happen Quote: the purpose of daily stand-ups the purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work....

September 11, 2022

Article: Pro-Con-Fix list, a simple tool for visualising a trade-off - Gien

https://www.selketjah.com//decision-theory/2020/05/16/pro-con-fix/ > This makes so much sense!

December 29, 2020

Article: Does TDD really lead to good design? - Sandro Mancuso

https://www.codurance.com/publications/2015/05/12/does-tdd-lead-to-good-design

December 25, 2020

Article: Smells to Refactorings Cheatsheet - Joshua Kerievsky

https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/smells-to-refactorings-cheatsheet/ PDF_ Smells to Refactorings Quick Reference Guide - industrial references: Book_ Refactoring - Martin Fowler Book_ Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky

December 25, 2020

Article: 1000 true fans - Kevin Kelly

( https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ ) A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce. You need to meet two criteria. First, you have to create enough each year that you can earn, on average, $100 profit from each true fan. Second, you must have a direct relationship with your fans. The number 1,000 is not absolute. Its significance is in its rough order of magnitude — three orders less than a million....

December 22, 2020

Article: We are creators - André Chaperon, Shawn Twing

(https://tinylittlebusinesses.com/) I came across this from a mail sent by the responsibility company. I have never felt good about the “permission” marketing approach by which we offer a “lead magnet” and then immediately hit you over the head with a “buy now” campaign. And yet, it is what most "experts" teach and what most marketers do. [...] To sell, we will use a strategic marketing framework devised by a couple of smart fellows we have been following and learning from: André Chaperon and Shawn Twing....

December 22, 2020

Article: What is Programmer Anarchy

Programmer Anarchy For more detail here is link to a presentation Fred George gave, and a link to the slides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-CF7klLdA http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-amsterdam-2011/slides/FredGeorge_ProgrammerAnarchy.pdf Company: Forward Fred George’s experience of Programmer Anarchy has been at an internet advising company called “Forward” where they got “40 geeks together” and instituted the new methodology. They work for a number of high profile clients, including “Search” a big energy company. And they report not only happy programmers but also some impressive statistics:...

November 18, 2020

Article: Better than free - Kevin Kelly

( https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/ ) Assuming you can’t defend copyright, and everything digital will eventually be free on the internet. How can you earn anything then from creating digital products? Immediacy pay extra to get it faster, even though you can get it cheap/free later Eg. Movie opening night, beta course,… Personalisation pay extra to have something tweaked to your preferences Eg. movie without violent/blood/sex Interpretation software/information is free, but how do you use it?...

December 15, 2019

Article: Is TDD Dead? - Martin Fowler

https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/ Other notes Article_ TDD is dead. Long live testing. - David Heinemeier Hansson Video_ Is TDD dead_ 1_ TDD and Confidence [[video-is-tdd-dead-1-tdd-and-confidence.md|]]Video_ Is TDD dead_ 2_ Test-induced design damage [[video-is-tdd-dead-2-test-induced-design-damage.md|]]Video_ Is TDD dead_ 3_ Feedback [[video-is-tdd-dead-3-feedback.md|]]Video_ Is TDD Dead_ 4_ Costs of Testing [[video-is-tdd-dead-4-costs-of-testing.md|]]Video_ Is TDD dead_ 5_ Answering Questions

April 5, 2019

Article: TDD is dead. Long live testing. - David Heinemeier Hansson

https://dhh.dk/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html http://www.rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste.pdfPaper_ Why Most Unit Testing is Waste - James O Coplien Video_ Writing Software - David Heinemeier Hansson

April 5, 2019