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Steve Balmer's performance review, and ours(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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What's write with this picture? A simple model of software development(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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by ljw1001 14y ago
On a sufficiently large project (more than a few people) the differences in productivity average out, as do to some extent estimation errors. I never expect any individual estimate to be correct; it's more important to get an accurate estim
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by ljw1001 14y ago
I think Mike Cohn has been _real clear_ on the subject and he says story points are NOT a measure of complexity, they're a measure of effort, which he (and I) connect directly with time. If points are not a measure of complexity than veloci
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by ljw1001 14y ago
If they're not fuzzy, how big is a point?
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by ljw1001 14y ago
Not totally different, but simpler, which counts. Earned value presupposes things like someone put a value on individual deliverables and that there's a budget that matters. Neither happens much in commercial software in my experience. Sinc
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When Agile jumped the shark(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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I can measure your productivity, and so can you(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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by ljw1001 14y ago
Someone made an excellent point on the blog site that one of the key drivers for a trend towards fewer engineering managers is that engineering management is getting simpler with, in his words: "the rapid the maturation of "infrastructure a
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by ljw1001 14y ago
Very flat structures work better in some places than others, and no approach is perfect for every situation. I've seen situations where engineers take the lead very successfully and some situations where more management has helped, but over
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by ljw1001 14y ago
I don't believe Google's system works poorly. Any organization of that size will have some successes and some failures, but there is a hell of a lot of great software produced there.
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Engineering management is dying(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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Money can't buy me performance(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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TenXer, the quantified life & the quantified hacker(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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Positive Software Engineering(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
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by ljw1001 18y ago
Maybe you should have entitled this one "What's wrong with this country and how can I convince people it's a good thing?" Some founders seemed to like running their companies and did OK while they were at it: There's Bill and Steve, of cour