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by ferentchak 11y ago
It's price to the enterprise is seen as almost zero from their perspective. The other products that solve the same problem cost 10x as much. The entire Atlassian business model was disruptive. While their competitors were focusing on
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by ferentchak 11y ago
It has a great getting started experience and some fun gimmicks but most of the innovation was cloned from Flowdock anyways. What you are seeing is the power of a famous CEO and an awesome marketing engine powered by an experience VC.
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by ferentchak 11y ago
I found that lots of the older folks were happy to get a chance to sit down and program again. They had moved into jobs that were more about managing and communication, so they were not able to find time to code like they used to. Giving t
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by ferentchak 11y ago
The events that I ran were about team building and giving the younger folks a safe chance to build some leadership skills. They were fully internal events though, not a "win a free monkey if you make the best app on my api" kind o
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by ferentchak 11y ago
I worked as the Developer Advocate at my last company (An Agile tools vendor). While I was there I had helped out some larger companies run their own internal hackathons. One of the services that we helped them with was planning the event.
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by ferentchak 11y ago
I have always been interested in the fact that many insurance companies will pay for acupuncture. My guess was that their statisticians must of been able to determine that getting those treatments will at the very least reduce the overall c
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by ferentchak 12y ago
I agree 100%. In my experience the main thing to keep in mind to improving any system is to: 1. See what state you are in 2. Figure out what new state you would like to be in 3. Guess at something that will help you move into that state and
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by ferentchak 12y ago
Yeah you are right, I asked Larry Maccherone to see if there was prior research about that common belief in the 7 person team and he was not aware of any. If you are interested in hearing about some of the current research that we are doing
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by ferentchak 12y ago
Yeah, that is alway the main issue. Getting people to talk to each other is very challenging. If you use an admittedly over simplistic explanation of DevOps as getting someone who understands the final deployment environment to sit nearby
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by ferentchak 12y ago
There are agile practices though. Some of them are so simple we don't even think of them as being a practice. Practices like continuous integration and unit testing traditionally fell into that category. I would say these days that wri
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by ferentchak 12y ago
DevOps always appeared to me to be the more dev centric agile practices (XP, Continuous Integration -> Continuous Deployment, Cross Functional Teams) trying to detach themselves from the project management type practices so that they cou
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by ferentchak 12y ago
Most of the research says agile teams of 7+-2 are best. At my work we have been trying to look at the differences that team size makes in software output. SAFe is interesting because it can help show large companies understand the value to
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by ferentchak 13y ago
Good thinking, this should save them all. setInterval(function(){ $("*[alt='lemming tombant']").trigger("mouseover");},100);
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by ferentchak 14y ago
Fun times. Do you track the cards that a specific individual uses? That way if you feel like turning that information over to the Lone Ranger they will have a method of tying all those incidents together.