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June 29, 2010

If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You

What product can you buy that is expensive, works with your PC, does things that could be critical to your health, but the salesman can't tell you how to use it? Sounds stupid, huh?...

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June 23, 2010

Markham's Scale of Ignorance

Yesterday a couple of readers gave me grief for all the "knowns", "unknown knowns", "unknown unknowns", etc.. On top of that , the definitions got a little loose in the essay. So instead of fixing the essay (Gad no! This...

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June 22, 2010

Back to the Darkness

I haven't been blogging much lately, and it all has to do with flying. Fifteen years ago a 22-year-old kid at the airport told me something that's been resonating with me ever since: we don't know what we don't know

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June 4, 2010

Why Agile Teams Win in the Marketplace

This post is about true Agile/Lean thinking. If parts of it disagree with your particular opinion of doing things, no criticism is intended. Agile is Applied Science. As opposed to most all other systems of developing technology, Agile makes no...

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