nickelcitymario

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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
I suppose that makes sense "if you have a well defined problem domain and you know exactly what the software is that you have to deliver". I don't have a lot of experience in such areas though, and i can't help but wonde
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
But... my eyes. They burn. Thank heavens for developer tools and the ability to delete backgrounds. Jokes aside, good call linking that. Super short, super influential, super relevant to the conversation at hand.
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
Preach
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
That's... actually pretty accurate? Dang.
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
Nope, don't understand the trade offs if you're suggesting scrum is slower than waterfall. That just doesn't line up with my experience. "Results may vary," though. The issue I've had with every other project m
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
> Estimating is my Achilles heel. Always has been. I'm way too optimistic. That's kinda the whole point. Everyone sucks at estimating. Scrum proposes a way to do "what greybeards call project management" in a way that
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
> There is a weird underlying assumption in these kinds of articles that implicitly seems to assume that Scrum will somehow turn a bad team into a good one. This assumption starts with one of the earliest Scrum pioneers, Jeff Sutherland.
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
Are you suggesting Waterfall projects are faster? I don't think you are, but that's how I read your sentence. Also I don't know what IS9000 or BS5750 are but they sound like they had amazing naming committees.
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by nickelcitymario 8y ago
Like any and every business theory, Scrum has one or two core ideas that are awesome, but could be explained adequately in a paragraph or two. This does not sell books and consulting, so it evolved into a field of its own. The fact that the
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by nickelcitymario 9y ago
A classic! I studied the original book heavily when I got into web design, and fell in love with this website when it first came out. A must-read for anyone who cares about words on the web.
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by nickelcitymario 9y ago
This is the most interesting thing I've read all day.
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by nickelcitymario 9y ago
I think the key word was "main actors". The UK, France, and China were not main actors in the Cold War, unless I'm terribly mistaken.
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by nickelcitymario 9y ago
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, switching to your small local ISP won't change things, either. Because they don't own the pipes. They lease them from (you guessed it) AT&T, et al. And as a non-American, this still terrifies
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by nickelcitymario 9y ago
This bit of the FAQ seems to encourage the very issue that led to this conflict... "How do teams address the issue of Intellectual Property/ownership?" "As with any startup, the team decides. Techstars Startup Weekend do
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by nickelcitymario 9y ago
From the intro: "It can be played by boys of every age [...] by girls of the better sort, and by a few rare and gifted women." Never gonna read beyond that intro.