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March 31, 2008
Burke and the Agile 400
Do Agile teams need experts? If an expert says "We need to have a structured conversation that looks like this" -- is that continuing self-directed emergent behavior? Shouldn't we value having really smart people over having a really open and...
March 14, 2008
Saying "Thank You"
I've started a new habit in my weekly flights home: I make sure I tell a soldier "thank you" It started out simply enough: I was sitting in O'Hare a month ago waiting on a flight that was delayed. Across...
Meeeting the Mucky-Mucks
It's good to know whether you are designing the nuclear power plant or driving the technicians to the site I have kind of a weird job. While I help large organizations run their software teams a lot faster, I'm also...
March 7, 2008
Catchy Nuclear Songs
What do you get when you put a bunch of nuclear scientists together for a conference? Well -- either you get one very boring conference or somebody tries to liven things up. That's what happened back in 2002 when the...
March 6, 2008
It's not the Code, Stupid (Part 2)
Ludwig WittgensteinCouldn't there just once be a bikini model who was also a philosopher?Seems like we always get guys like this. Things are never what you think they are. Take developing software. We call it that because -- duh! --...
March 3, 2008
Abrupt Climate Changing. Political Argument Dynamics Unchanging
Sometimes I wonder how I will feel if my actions make the world 5 degrees warmer on average by the end of the century. Then I slap myself around and sober up. Looks like the argument around global warming is...
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Explaining Modeling
I have been talking to some friends who are more into Agile with a big A than I am over the past couple of weeks. One of the topics was the purpose and use of modeling in developing software. On...