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July 30, 2009
Agile Coach: Balancing Knowledge and Practice
There are two kinds of teams and developers in the world: those that are heavily into knowledge and those that are heavily into practice. Both lead to poor performance.
July 28, 2009
Agile Project Management: Estimating Project Size
When coaching for agile project management, I have led a lot of teams estimating and delivering technology. in addition, I've been asked by several clients to advise them on how to estimate a project. Plus as a hands-on guy, I've...
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July 24, 2009
What's Your Work Area Look Like? (Agile Coach Version)
I'm finishing up working for a large client next week, and I'm also playing around with the new SnagIt version screen capture widget, so I thought it would be neat to combine the two together and capture what my current...
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DGE Review 1: "Why I Became an Atheist", by John W. Loftus
(This is the first in my "Does God Exist" series of reviews. There will be six or seven books on whether God exists or not. I'll read them for you, give a recap here, and then try to draw it...
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July 20, 2009
Summer Smackdown: Battle For God Intensifies
I like big questions, big projects, and big ideas. The more challenging, the better. Since it doesn't get much bigger than God, seemed like a good project for the next month or two while I'm decompressing. After all, if we all die and there is a God and he looks like an octopus, aren't you all going to feel very silly you didn't study up a bit while you were alive?
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July 16, 2009
Blue-Sky Startup Ideas: Socratic Linking
Should I code this? That's a much more interesting question. It involves what kind of team I have, how long we can run before needing money, and what all of our individual goals are.
July 15, 2009
Precision Flying is about Energy, Timing, Control
When you're flying aerobatics, it's the little things that matter. Here's a guy well into his low-level routine. He does a loop, some gyroscopic work, and eventually pulls up into a hammer-head. Coming out of the hammer-head, he does...
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July 13, 2009
Great Speeches
I have a bit of a reading assignment, for those of you interested in really good reading. Today as part of a training class I'm creating I'm searching for good speeches. It's all part of helping people take political or...
July 2, 2009
Morals, Manners, Ethics, and the Law
After chatting with somebody online the other day, it appears to me like a lot of people are confused between ethics, manners, morality, and the law. I'm not sure if this is deliberate or not. Perhaps it's just ignorance. I...
July 1, 2009
Et tu, Burger King?
I'm not even going to comment....