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Tag Archives: programming
Learn to Code to Help Your Career
I believe there are big benefits to knowing how to code (programing, software development). What is possible for your organization is often significantly impacted by understanding how to properly use software (and create it, coding, when needed). The lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Creativity, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, curiouscat, engineering, IT, management, programming, Software Development, Systems thinking, technology, usability
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Avoiding Tragedy of the Commons for Software Development
Kanban and Tragedy of the Commons The “Tragedy of the Commons” archetype often manifests itself through “Shared Services”, when a small number of people with specific skills, work across different teams. Each team in isolation gets benefit from the Shared … Continue reading
Assigning Story Points to Bug Fixes
Agile software development has teams estimate the effort to deliver requests from the product owner. The estimates are done in points (in order to abstract away from hours – as estimates have plenty of variation in how long they will … Continue reading
Managing to Test Result Instead of Customer Value
Computer hardware and software creators use benchmarks as one tool to compare the performance of alternative products. At times this can be very useful. You can learn what software of hardware is faster and that may be a very valuable … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Data, programming, Software Development, Systems thinking, targets
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Understanding How to Manage Geeks
The unspoken truth about managing geeks [the broken link was removed] by Jeff Ello IT pros are sensitive to logic — that’s what you pay them for. When things don’t add up, they are prone to express their opinions on … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Psychology, Respect, Software Development
Tagged IT, managing people, programming, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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Three Years of Real-World IT Projects In Ruby
Nice webcast by Martin Fowler, Three Years of Real-World Ruby. This talk is probably only of interest to those of you in software development, but for them I think it is an excellent presentation. At work we have been use … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Software Development, webcast
Tagged IT, program management, programming, project management, Ruby, Software Development, webcast
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The Importance of Making Problems Visible
Great, short, presentation webcast by Jason Yip showing the importance of making problems visible. Anyone interested in software development should watch this, and it is valuable for everyone else, also. Great visuals. Related: Future Directions for Agile Management – Agile … Continue reading
A Programmer’s View of the Universe
A few weeks ago I wrote about integrating information technology and business process management. This post from Steve Yegge is interesting and discusses one reason I find that a good strategy. Programmers, by and large, are good, practical systems thinkers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, Respect, Software Development
Tagged Career, managing people, programming, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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Gobbledygook
How is this for Gobbledygook? Your home banking access code is expired! You must change your access code at this time. Your access code: * may be between 4 and 20 characters in length * must not have been changed … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, IT, Management, Software Development
Tagged bad customer service, programming, Software Development, usability
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What to Wear to an Interview
Response to What to Wear for an IT Job Interview?. Is this just a huge bit stereotypical? Who can blame them for not wanting to bother with their wardrobes? Fashion is fickle. Fashion is expensive. Fashion requires imagination and inspiration, … Continue reading →