September 2007 - Posts
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My boss Stephen Gillett snapped this candid shot of me slacking in my office last week. He tried to post it in a comment via Haloscan but it seems Haloscan screens out <img> tags in the content. So here it is... How many of books lying on my desk...
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Alistair Cockburn will be in Seattle this month. He has agreed to give a talk to the local APLN chapter. It will be more of an Open Space / Town Hall format. Attendance is strictly limited to 60 people. RSVP is required to dragosd at avanade.com. The...
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It's been anniversary time in my personal micro-universe recently. September marks 10 years since we started to use color sticky notes with Peter Coad's analysis technique. September 1997 Mega-Pattern The initial domain modeling on Singapore was...
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At this month's meeting Jim Benson will describe the distributed Scrum method they use at Gray Hill Solutions to deliver transportation software projects using a geagraphically spread team, mostly made up of temporary contractors. As usual the meeting...
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While at Agile 2007, I attended a discovery session led by Pete Behrens, of Agile Executive Blog . Pete had assembled 3 of his clients who had all taken their teams through enterprise level transitions to an agile approach to software development and...
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While success stories are all very well, in the agile community we know that we learn more from our mistakes and challenges than from our successes. Hence, I thought it might be more useful for my readers to hear some of my frustrations from my first...
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Every second Friday of the month, my team holds our Operations Review meeting. Ops Review has been a key element in the cultural change that I've been leading at Corbis. It's a key element in building a high trust culture based on transparency...
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I've been invited to speak at Javapolis in Antwerp, Belgium this December. I'll be giving a main conference session plus a half day tutorial session at the "university" on the first two days. The tutorial will be an opportunity to learn...
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Adail Retamal has introduced a variant of the TOC Thinking Processes using a color scheme to color the trees, TOC in Color . He's derived this work on his experience with Feature Driven Development and Coad's Color Modeling. Adail believes that...
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Perhaps it's a mid-life crisis but after 3 years plus years away, I have a hankering to go back to Scotland. I'm going to be in Edinburgh for 3 days in December. I just agreed with Clarke Ching to spend one of those evenings speaking to the Agile...
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Today was my one year anniversary in my new job as Senior Director running software engineering at Corbis. It's been an interesting year. While we put out 34 releases of new software across a range of our IT systems and external facing systems like...
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I have a new article published this month. Feels like my first heavyweight article for at least 18 months. It feels good to be back in the saddle writing again. Thanks to my friend Pollyanna Pixton of the APLN for the gentle nudge. I'm really pleased...
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My employer just launched a gallery in the Second Life virtual game world. While much of what we do at the Corbis IT department is the usual grind of financial, HR and other back end system, we do get to innovate and implement cool stuff that show how...
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Corey Ladas posts his thoughts on how a kanban development team daily standup operates differently than a Scrum team standup and why it scales to a larger number of people and can still finish in 15 minutes (and most usually much less). Corey and I have...
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