Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Entrepreneurial maxims

May 27, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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I recently came across an interesting table comparing typical mindsets of freelancers to those of entrepreneurs, which I immedately printed out and sticked to my refrigerator as a reminder. Since we currently have startup conditions too in our company, I know that it takes a lot of discipline to make adjustments to a mindset that [...]

Software Craftsmanship Manifesto

January 22, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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I have just received a new book: “Apprenticeship Patterns“: Skimming through the first pages I noticed the words in the 3rd column extending from the points in the 2nd column and thought, ‘Hmm, I have heard about these 2nd column points’… The following table popped up in my mind, which I would like to share [...]

Incrementalists vs. Completionists

June 27, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I have just finished the book ‘Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager’ by Michael Lopp and I would like to recap the idea behind the 2 identified types of ploblem solvers on a development team. These are their characteristics: Incrementalist: They are driven by constantly making small forward increments. They [...]

Why Make Money?

April 28, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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Today I listened to an interesting podcast “John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW” in which a famous line by Walt Disney was quoted: “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” This indeed makes a huge difference!

Software Development Myths

November 28, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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There is no doubt: The environment in which software is designed, produced and maintained has fundamental impact on what comes out below the bottom line for all players playing in this game. I have learnt that there is little in software development, you can do intuitively right the first time – even if you have [...]

Podcast: Core Values of Innovation

November 9, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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Here are the thoughts taken from a lecture of Judy Estrin (CEO of JLABS, LLC) on innovation recorded in October 2008 at Stanford University: Core Values of Innovation: Curiosity and ability to frame open questions. Instead of ‘Do you need this feature?’ you could ask ‘What are you currently working on?’ or ‘What are your [...]

Video: Software Craftsmenship

October 15, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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The video (82min) shows Scott Dillman’s talk about ‘Software Craftsmenship’ at Agile 2008. He explains a series of fundamentals around software development in organizations and being a software developer, best practices, code quality, passing on knowledge, culture, metrics and many many more. Watch it! Goto: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Craftsmanship-Scott-Dillman