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Monthly Archives: November 2004
Asking for Help with Commenting
I use enetation as my comment service. The comment spammers have found a way to access enetation’s database to spam this blog and my hiring blog. After receiving over 100 spam comments this weekend, I can’t take much more and … Continue reading
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Observations from a Writing Workshop
I led a two-hour writing workshop this past weekend. The attendees ranged from a 9-year-old who says, “I LOVE to write,” to retired adults who are involved in community projects who hate to write. We performed two writing exercises. … Continue reading
Definitions of Peer Review, Walkthrough, Inspection
Shimin asks, What do you mean by “peer review”? Here are my definitions: Peer review. An author asks a peer to read, comment, and critique a work artifact. If the work artifact is code, the reviewer will read the … Continue reading
Techniques to “Catch Up”
I’m reviewing my students’ updated plans for their projects. One team originally wanted full unit testing on the code as it was created, but added (my paraphrase) “if the project is late, some unit testing will be acceptable.” I … Continue reading
Back from AYE
Last week we held the AYE conference. Attending bloggers (in random order) were: Ron Pihlgren, Esther Derby, James Bach, Don Gray, Steve Smith, Tim Bacon, Rachel Davies, Dave Hoover, Dave Pickett, and Dave Liebreich. I hope I didn’t forget anyone. … Continue reading
Avoid Student Syndrome
Student Syndrome occurs when the person with the task waits until the last possible moment to start. Some people spend their entire academic career waiting until the night before a project is due and then starting it, pulling an … Continue reading
Defining the Value of This Project
My PM students are articulating insights about projects that I’m happy to see. One project team said this in their charter, “The value of the product is moving the paper successfully across the room. The value of the project … Continue reading
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