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Shoulder to Shoulder

My former employer may finally have to pay the price. There's this picture in the article of the CEO standing in their new offices. ("New" in the sense that they were still under construction when I left.) And the thing I noticed first? There's

Scrum Sucks: Standups

Scrum is a development process; and right there it has already screwed up without having actually done anything. But we'll get to that later. Today we're going to look at standups which are daily meetings of the development team. I don't even know where

Drunken Monkeys

When I'm done with this project I'm going to write an essay called "Drunken Monkeys", which'll be a diatribe against the notion of formalized project management and feature estimation. I've been searching for this paper I read forever ago about

Mind Numbing

It's probably a result of making a thousand such phone calls every day.... Recruiter: Would you be interested in a job in Maryland? Me: No. I'm not interested in relocating to Maryland. Recruiter: Would you know anyone who might be qualified for this job? Me: I

Commuting

I've done an effective job at avoiding rush-hour commutes; or commutes at all, for that matter. In fact, it was only last week that I first went through one of those signal lights at the end of a freeway on-ramp while it was running. I started a new

What a Manager Says vs What a Manager Means

My favorite is the first one about the "team player" thing. Why must you have an emotional attachment to the job? I think the parallel that statement implies is that of a sports team. With players being paid millions of dollars. For that amount of money you can

Managing Programmers

Well, the article is about "geeks", and that can take many facets, but I read "programmer" everywhere it reads "geeks". You can do the same. So, this article is the single best summary of the peculiarities of managing IT people. It's amazing.

Cloud Computing

I can't wait until the term cloud computing finally gets shoved out of the vernacular and relegated to the list of idiotic terms used by a previous and archaic generation. Given that the cyber- affix remains in rampant use by the US government (and not a single private

Baseline the Project Plan

I know people use the term "technobabble", and I certainly hear a lot of talk that fits that description. When conversing with other engineers about a technical subject, such talk is entirely warranted - to effectively (and concisely) communicate. When in a meeting with managers, product and advertising

Follow-Up with the Fruit Company

It was nice to talk to someone other than an HR person. This interview was of a more technical nature, with few questions (only one, really) that pertained at all to my opinion of something - and that was the "ideal job" question. Again. It was easier to

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