johnksawers

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   by johnksawers 7y ago

   I think the scrum team size is determined in part because communication overhead is exponential, getting beyond 6-8 people means the whole team has to spend a lot of extra time coordinating. This is true regardless of whether you're do
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   by johnksawers 9y ago

   Whether we can run the tests ourselves, and whether we want to spend the engineering time to build and/or maintain an in-house CI system are two very different questions. Whether a developer (or business person) made a business decisi
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   by johnksawers 9y ago

   That's a good article - a nice overview. I have a conference talk I give on the same topic called Your Emotional API: https://johnksawers.wistia.com/medias/wnlr918xe7
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   by johnksawers 13y ago

   You've hit on what I think the core problem is: since forever (as far as I know) computers have been regarded as "magical and incomprehensible" - that is, non-technical people think they will never be able to understand what
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   by johnksawers 13y ago

   Many of these arguments assume that in (say) 50 years, all the janitorial/toilet cleaning/fruit picking jobs (i.e. shitty) jobs won't have been replaced by robots. I think this will happen whether it puts people out of work o