As I mentioned in a recent post, I’ve been listening to Susan Cain’s, “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking.” I also mentioned that I’d be saying more on the topic, and here comes some more. Today it’s going to be the idea of Agile for introverts. In recent weeks,…
I’ve gotten some questions about the idea of what we do being scientific or not, and that raises some interesting discussion points. This is a “You Asked for It” post, and in this one, I’m just going to dive right into the reader question. Don’t bury the lead, as it were. Having attended many workshops on…
The ongoing kerfuffle over the “No Estimates” movement is surreal to me. So before I get to prediction markets for software estimates, I’ll discuss the surreal a bit. Instead of attempting to describe it, which, I can only imagine, would be meta-surreal, I’ll make use of an allegory of sorts. No Wedding Estimates Imagine that wedding…
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been doing mostly management-y things, so I haven’t had a lot of trade craft driven motivations to pick Pluralsight videos to watch while jogging. In other words, I’m not coming up to speed on any language, framework, or methodology, so I’m engaging in undirected learning and observation. (I’m…
I was asked recently in a comment what I thought about the “No Estimates Movement.” In the interests of full disclosure, what I thought was, “I kinda remember that hashtag.” Well, almost. Coincidentally, when the comment was written to my blog, I had just recently seen a friend reading this post and had read part…
