Surfing the web, I came across this ‘last lecture’ of Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who suffered from cancer and died in July 2008. Goto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo A true hero and a professor you whish you had lectures with…
Archive for August, 2008
Inspired by the book “The Productive Programmer” I was paying attention more and more on how I actually get things done and how I could better exploit existing shortcuts or faster paths. Please do not ask why, but I had the following problem: One my PHP-Apps had scattered syntax errors. The question was, how I [...]
August 12, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Links, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development • team
Filed under: Links, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development • team
As projects and teams I am working on get more interwoven and organizational issues and management processes are gaining more and more traction on the 3 project dimensions time, budget and quality, I was thinking about what I would do as a manager in charge to let steam off the many issues we were facing [...]
August 12, 2008 by marco · 3 Comments
Filed under: Industry Terms, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development
Filed under: Industry Terms, Software development
Social Tagging: agile • development
If you engage in agile development methods, sooner or later you will come accross the ‘Chicken and Pig’ analogy. It’s purpose is to depict the different levels of commitment of project stakeholders. It summs up like this: A chicken and a pig decide to start a restaurant. The chicken suggests to serve bacon and eggs. [...]
It’ a nice idea, to have a magnetic character for each developer on your project planning boards. Design your characters on the Soutpark-Studio-Website: http://www.sp-studio.de This is me: [2008-08-07] You can do it with the Simpsons too: http://www.simpsonsmovie.com
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