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by struppi 9y ago
This is a great example. In one team I was coaching, we also experienced that standups improved when we switched to a kanban board and enumerating tasks on the board: We would not ask people "What did you do today", but pick a tas
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by struppi 9y ago
"Except they have no way of recording the opportunity cost" This is a very good point. I have to think about it more. Still, as an independent consultant, I have seen some teams who get close to 0 value from their dailies (while o
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by struppi 9y ago
True. That's the goals you want to achieve. I am just trying to say that you do not necessarily need a daily meeting to achieve these goals. And that you might get all the value from the daily scrum with something that better suits you
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Stop the Daily Standup Meeting(devteams.at)
271 points by struppi 9y ago|251 comments
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by struppi 9y ago
There may or may not be 10x programmers - I, personally, find the reasoning in the article convincing. And I think there may be programmers that vastly outperform others in programming tasks. So I think there may be 10x programmers. But,
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by struppi 9y ago
Ok, this is awesome, if everything works as advertised. I have been mostly a Linux user for quite some time - at least on my own computer, clients always have Windows. But this year I bought a Surface Pro as a secondary device. I first eval
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by struppi 9y ago
Awesome explanation! I have to think about this organism / selection idea a bit more. It's amazing how much I have learned and how many different perspectives people have told me since I first gave that talk...
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by struppi 9y ago
Thanks for your insightful reply! b) works only when you are even allowed to talk to the exectuives ;) That's why I said it's more frustrating in larger companies...
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by struppi 9y ago
Well, this is very hard. It is more frustrating with bigger companies. In one occasion, where they officially brought me in as an agile coach, I tried to at least achieve some local optimum with the team, because some big improvements wer
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by struppi 9y ago
I have been thinking about this a lot, ever since I first read this article, some years ago. Most of my freelance projects and technical coaching gigs in the last few years where at companies that were in or after their "Agile transiti
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by struppi 10y ago
A friend of mine was questioned at an international airport because he traveled from Europe with only hand luggage (he was only staying for 2 days). So, i guess, not having something with (electronics, luggage, ...) you can also cause probl
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by struppi 10y ago
Every time US border security is being discusses here, I read comments about how things are bad at the Canadian or UK border too. But does this really make an overreaction legitimate - That other countries are doing it too? Please think aga
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by struppi 10y ago
Amazon, occasionally, but not always. Also happened to me at least twice with Spreadshirt (but they don't really sell devices). Once the product clearly had a defect (part of the print was coming off), once I ordered it just too small.
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I am Not the Best Developer on the Team (and that's fine)(davidtanzer.net)
1 points by struppi 10y ago|0 comments
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by struppi 10y ago
Just a side note: This kind of research could help us on Earth, too. For example, some of the heat that gets wasted when you drive your car could be reused and put back into the car to charge the battery or power electr
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by struppi 10y ago
While I agree with almost everything you wrote - I found that original post awesome and there are many great lessons in it - I don't see what this has to do with my comment. Also, I don't get what I seemingly did not realize (most
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by struppi 10y ago
Yes, I have seen that too, but that's not what I was talking about. I have heard about a case where really the best programmer left, and now everybody else had more responsibility, had to learn about parts of the code they did not know
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by struppi 10y ago
Everything from the original post sounds reasonable, you should absolutely read it. Just some random thoughts to add to it: * For most of my past clients, the skill / output of their programmers was not the bottleneck, even though th
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by struppi 10y ago
...and it's also fairly easy to forsee that this rush will not happen, if, during the negotiations, the economy in britain goes further down. But we will only know for sure in two years. Anyway, I would have expected that there was a
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by struppi 10y ago
OK, wait, this does not make sense. If half of Romania an Bulgaria wanted to come to the UK, they would already be there. Because free movement already exists. Why would anyone decide now to "quickly move to the UK", just because
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by struppi 10y ago
First, IANAL, and I am not an expert for the situation in the US. So you're probably right. But in the UK, you can go to jail for not disclosing your cryptographic keys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure
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by struppi 10y ago
They signed it.
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by struppi 10y ago
This! Also, clever technical solutions won't help when not having any data is seen as suspicious. Like, you cannot tell them "I don't know my passowrds. They are in a password safe, and I do not have access right now".
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by struppi 10y ago
I think this means that you can finally run EXEs in an easy way, directly from WSL. Without installing cbwin. Basically this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38920710/how-can-a-run-wi...
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by struppi 10y ago
I generally agree with those measures, but 1 and 2 (estimate and deliver on time) are only really possible when: * Developers and teams have quite some slack (c.f. 20% time) * The code and architecture are of very high quality and wel
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by struppi 10y ago
Ok, maybe I'm getting this wrong, but to me, it's not entirely surprising that those costs have been rising, even when adjusted for inflation. AFAIR, we spend a lot of money on food, transport, holidays, electronic devices, ...
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by struppi 10y ago
Good! I am really looking forward to jshell, yet I appreciate that the Java team at Oracle is taking it's time to get this right. With their very strict backwards compatibility requirements (still compatible with Java 1.0 AFAIK), every
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by struppi 10y ago
Recently, I try to write the first line of my commit messages so they describe what the system now does, compared to before the commit. This makes reading the history much more fun. Like: Validation of email addresses now sends a test
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by struppi 10y ago
1Password is awesome on Linux using wine. I use it with Vivaldi (and the chrome plugin in Vivaldi). My other current use case is the original StarCraft. I just read (on the appdb) that the 32bit version of Lightroom now works with wine, so
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by struppi 10y ago
I totally agree with you. In the end you need different kinds of tests (end-to-end, unit, ...). And with legacy code, you probably want to start with end-to-end tests or integrated tests. But in that specific case, no amount of tests would

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