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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Looking for Bloggers in New Zealand, Australia, and Israel
I’m on an around-the-world trip in March. I’m speaking at the Software Development conferences in Wellington on March 15, and in Sydney on March 17. Any bloggers interested in getting together for a dinner on March 15 or March 17? … Continue reading
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Invest in the Design of Your Project Every Day
Caveat: I just started thinking about this, so I don’t feel particularly articulate. After reading Roy’s post of Kent Beck’s discussion “Invest in the design of the system every day”, I realized that’s what I do for project planning. … Continue reading
Posted in schedule
Tagged product development, program management, project management
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Tirade on Stupid User Interfaces
I have several accounts with a credit card company: two cards and a merchant account. They don’t want the expense of printing monthly statements for the merchant account, so they sent me a letter to enroll my merchant account … Continue reading
Clairvoyance and Pair-Work
I’m working with Esther this week on the book. We’re editing (and continuing to pair-write and pair-edit). Today, one of the things we addressed were the comments dealing with the people we name in the book. We hadn’t done … Continue reading
Managing Multi-Tasking in a Small Group
A reader sent me email with this question: “We have a group of four people (3 developers and a tester). We work on 4 products, releasing one about once a month (each product is released once a quarter). The … Continue reading
The Quality Pledge
I just received this in email: Pledge Our company is completely and absolutely committed to quality. * * Except on time-critical projects and during adverse cash-flow situations. When else would you need to be committed to quality? (Not to … Continue reading
Making Sure You’re Fit Enough to Work
I’m catching up with my blog reading, and discovered these two gems: Staying Awake has links to comparing the lack of sleep with too much alcohol. Since I’m a one-drink-one-drunk person (well, ok, not drunk, but certainly not sober), this … Continue reading
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