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We’ve been opening new Stack Exchanges left and right on a variety of topics. In almost every case, the Stack Exchange appears to duplicate the content of an existing community. For example, our WordPress answers site (now in beta) covers the exact same...
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A discussion on the LinkedIn Certified Scrum Master board led me to read an article on Mike Cohn’s blog titled, “It’s Effort, Not Complexity.” Mike argues that stakeholders don’t care about how hard it is to do something, they care about how long it will take. Fair enough...
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Sometimes I think a pretty good business model would be to copy the applications that 37signals makes, but make them more complex. More features, more promises—generally, just more complicated. Here’s the video from a talk I gave at the Business of Software...
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Dear Construx: How do you deal with the risk of Story Point inflation throughout a Scrum project? My team goes through release planning, ending up with a backlog where each item has been estimated using story points. Based upon our estimates of story points and team velocity, we predict, and commit to...
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One thing I’m often asked is, how do you come up with valid project estimates in Scrum? After all, Scrum doesn’t want you to worry about more than the current sprint, does it? The basic rule of estimation is, estimate size/effort/complexity and then derive duration. For Scrum, we follow the industry...
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EYJAFJÖLL, ICELAND — Java programmers around the globe are in a panic today over a Wikileaks press release issued at 8:15am GMT. Wikileaks announced that they will re-release the source code for thousands of Open Source Java projects, making all access...
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We launched three new Stack Exchange sites this week! Gaming Cooking Pro Webmasters We’ll have three more for you next week, too. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board...
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Well! I've sure had a nice relaxing blog-free year. No worries, no haters, no Nooglers wandering by my office and staring at me through the window as if they expect me to crap in my hand and hurl it at them. Not that I wasn't tempted.Nope, it's...
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“We decided that individually-branded sites felt more authentic and trustworthy. We thought that letting every Stack Exchange site have its own domain name, visual identity, logo, and brand would help the community feel more coherent. After all, nobody...
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Want to know how to export mail from Gmail ? Or delete your Facebook account ? Or send giant files via email ? Well, the new Web Applications Stack Exchange is for you. It’s a part of the Stack Exchange network, so it has the clean, elegant design that...
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p {font-size: 10 pt; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.6} li {font-size: 10 pt; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.6} fprolloverstyle>a:hover {color: #0055aa; text-decoration: underline} Construx Software Executive Summit 2010 Steve McConnell Fred Brooks Tom DeMarco Tim Lister Scott Berkun A rare...
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Neil has posted a video of Don Norman (most famous for his book The Design of Everyday Things ) speaking at the Business of Software conference last year in San Francisco. “Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to...
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Area 51 is now in beta . This is the promised place where the community comes together to invent new Stack Exchange sites. Benofsky from Hacker News writes : Seems overly complicated, I have no idea what's going on when I visit Area 51, I guess this...
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My friend Noam at Harvard Business School does annual surveys of executive compensation in tech companies. The surveys are a great way to figure out how much to pay that VP of Sales you were thinking of hiring, or whether your equity grant as CTO is fair...
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Paul Kenny is a regular speaker at the Business of Software. He’s an expert on sales, especially high tech sales, and both Red Gate and Fog Creek hire him all the time to train our sales teams and build our sales organization. Here’s a video of his talk...
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One question that I often hear is, “Do we have to implement Scrum by the book, or should we adapt it to our environment?” The answer is, “Yes!” You should do both. And, they are not mutually exclusive. To me, 'keeping Scrum pure' means adopting the three roles, four meetings, four artifacts,...
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FogBugz 7.3 is a pretty huge release, despite the modest version number. It has a bunch of features that almost everyone will find useful on a daily basis. The Case Event Edit Plugin now lets you edit cases (instead of just appending to them). Bulk Reply...
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I’m a long-time Kathy Sierra fan. Her talk at the Business of Software 2009 was amazing, even though, in retrospect, I realize now that she had a slide making fun of Stack Overflow’s terrific new VC-backed business model. She even got the unicorn ! Watch...
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“And the best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it.” Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A financing Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy...
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Dear TechSmith , Thank you very much for all the pictures of your pets: Also thanks for the toys, which were great. I especially like the iPhone. Yours, Taco. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the...
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I love this one; blows the mind of many a project manager: if you add select items to your work plan, you can shorten the project schedule. Absurd you say? You may be right, let’s take a deeper look. Any good development planning should start out with the high level details of only the work needed to...
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Since announcing the new plans for Stack Exchange , there’s been a lot of discussion about what kind of new Q&A sites will work best on this platform. S o far there are 32 informal proposals on meta.stackexchange.com . We’re weeks away from opening...
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Like the small-town mayor who suddenly finds herself running an entire state, our ambitions for Stack Overflow keep growing. Our original idea of making the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your programming questions suddenly seemed too...
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There is a new book out by Fred Brooks (author of The Mythical Man Month )! The Design of Design Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people...
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The entire extended Stack Overflow team (including the Stack Exchange team) is meeting in New York in April to do some strategic planning. For example, we need to plan our Rock Band song lists, decide who gets to be on the drums and who is stuck with...
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