Using Feedblitz for Email Subscribers
I’ve been using Bloglet for email subscribers. Today, I decided it was time to move on to Feedblitz. If you subscribe via email, you should received this posting (and all other future postings).
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Moved Email Subscriptions to Feedblitz
A number of people still subscribe to this blog with an email subscription. I had used Bloglet to do process the emails, but the service didn’t always work. And to be fair, Bloglet was a free labor of love 🙂 I’m now using Feedblitz, assuming I didn’t make any mistakes. As always, feel free to
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Reducing Infrastructure Risk
It’s been quite the Monday so far. My office toilet started spewing water, a cabinet door fell off one of the cabinets in the kitchen, and I’m trying to back up and duplicate my hard disk because both latches on my Powerbook broke at the Agile conference and I need to send my computer
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Iterations Keep Sponsors Involved
Several years ago, a colleague emailed me, asking how to keep sponsors involved. My colleague was using company-mandated phase-gate lifecycle with long project durations (18-24 months). I’d recommended providing a project dashboard and showing the sponsor progress. My colleague was stumped–the dashboard wasn’t particularly helpful until they were in the testing phase and it
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Why Puzzles and Riddles Discriminate
At last week’s Agile 2006 conference, I led a tutorial called “Hiring for an Agile Team.” I made a statement that some of the participants challenged: Using puzzles and riddles discriminate against anyone who isn’t a (middle-upper class) white American suburban male. (I’d forgotten the middle-upper class part when I was leading the session.) So,
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New Version of Site is Up
If you’ve ever tried to look at my articles page, you know how hard it was to find anything. Well, my updated version of the site is finally up. I have a few broken links, which I expect to fix, hardware willing, in the next week or so. If you find anything broken, do let
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Creating an Audition for Test-Driven Development
Last week at the Agile conference, a participant in my “Hiring for an Agile Team” session asked how to know if the people she was interviewing–who had no experience as part of an agile team–might actually work in the team. As she said, “I can’t wait for the perfect person. I can train, but I
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With Feedback, It's Kind to be Firm
A couple of weeks ago at our Managing One-on-One workshop, Esther and I were teaching about how to give feedback. Here’s the “recipe”: Create an opening to deliver feedback. Describe the behavior or result in a way the person can hear. State the impact using “I” language. Make a request for changed behavior. When
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Starting With Rolling Wave Planning
Also this week, over at the AYE Conference, my Starting With Rolling Wave Planning is up.
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Paying Off Technical Debt
I’ve had technical debt on my mind recently, so I’ve been writing about it. This week, the good folks at Stickyminds published my column, An Incremental Technique to Pay Off Testing Technical Debt. Enjoy!