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Using Lean to Manage Scrum
Recently, I gave a presentation on Flow at Agile Executives. It was a fun meeting and a fun topic and lead to several realizations on my part. First, when Alistair Cockburn is in the audience, I get a bit nervous. Second, Lean and Agile aren’t incompatible, they’re complimentary. Let me explain. The Sterility of Lean Lean tends to think of people as nothing more than metrics. Cogs in the grand scheme of things. Little focus is placed on the human aspect of software development when talking about...

Posted On Friday, August 19, 2011 2:14 PM | Feedback (0) |

Registered for Build!
Sweet! I get to go to Build (formerly PDC) this year thanks to my awesome company Veracity Solutions. Secretly, I’m hoping that MS gives away Windows 8 tablets AND a mango edition windows phone. I went to Mix and got a Kinect. That was cool, but since I already had one . . . Technorati Tags: General...

Posted On Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:22 AM | Feedback (0) |

MIX Swag
So, for the last couple of years, we’ve been giving out Moleskine’s as our swag at conferences. Last year, we gave out one to some Microsoft people. Guess what showed up in the SWAG bags this years? Yup, Internet Explorer branded Moleskine’s! And yes, we’ve been able to confirm that they did in fact get the idea from us. Imitation is the best form of flattery. BTW—Check out www.letmegooglethatwithbing... Technorati Tags: Mix...

Posted On Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:25 AM | Feedback (0) |

Mix 2011
So, I’m at mix 2011 this year, and here’s the message I’m feeling from Microsoft: Silverlight is a plug-in. It will always likely do things that the standards don’t yet support, but it’s part of the web (i.e. html5), not competing with it. You should build in HTML first and only use silverlight where the browser can’t fill the gap. Must of the functionality that you get in XAML has been reproduced in CSS3 + HTML5 + all of the other HTML5 stuff. The tooling for HTML5 dev stinks right now. Multiple...

Posted On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:08 PM | Feedback (0) |

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