May 2009 - Posts
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I recently received the following books: The CMDB Imperative: How to Realize the Dream and Avoid the Nightmares , by Glenn O'Donnel and Carlos Casanova; Prentice Hall PTR; March 2009 The Data Access Handbook: Achieving Optimal Database Application...
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I submitted a proposal on this topic to the Agile2009 conference . The idea was to garner feedback as to whether or not there is a perceived need for Lean/Agile CM Manifesto (or "Declaration" of some sorts), which sort of presumes there is a...
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I came across a great quote from Dee Hock in an article at Good2work.com : “Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity...
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf totally rocks!!! I received my 3rd edition of the pickaxe book: Programming Ruby 1.9 , which reminds me that I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of Programming Scala (some excerpts are available now). The "Pragmatic"...
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In Part 1 of this series we discussed the Business Agility Cycle and then in Part 2 we derived the Software Agility Cycle from that by applying "the people factor" of Agile development to the business-agility cycle. That "people factor"...
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A couple of posts ago I mentioned the book Trust: The social virtues and the creation of prosperity by Francis Fukuyama. I hadn't read the book yet, but Austin Hastings , an esteemed SCM colleague, has and I promised that if he was willing to post...
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