'references' Category
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book review: Cross-Cultural Dialogues
I’ve completed Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters With Cultural Difference. This book on cultural differences was a quick read, amenable to being read in short bursts, and I think GSD teams may find it useful. It’s not by any means a comprehensive guide to help you get out, and stay out, of trouble: I expect […]
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technology and culture
For a current project investigating the use of collaboration tools on GSD (global software development) projects, I’ve been assessing the impact of videoconferencing on development team activities. On the plus side is the great potential benefit of visual feedback. On the negative side, I’ve realized, is the great potential to inadvertently offend never-met teammates of […]
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shared resources
Great post on Chris Sterling’s “Harmony with Agile and Architecture” blog about the impact of “shared resources” (plus it seems the author and I share a pet peeve about referring to people as “resources”, as if they were interchangeable widgets and not unique human beings)
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book: Thinking Tools for Scaling Lean and Agile
Tonight I found a review of an interesting book, via the LinkedIn Agile CMMI group: Thinking Tools for Scaling Lean and Agile, by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. It’s going onto my wish list.
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company character
Today I found a thought-provoking and quite timely Harvard Business Review article, “The Layoff”, via Bob Sutton, one of the respondents to the presented case study. If you’re one of the first 25 to click through from his blog post, you too can get a free PDF of the HBR article.
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upcoming book release
I’m planning to check out the new business novel “Aligning Ferret” after its release (note: its introductory price, good through the end of March 2009, is only $12.30 including shipping to the US). I will post here after I’ve reviewed it. I may also check out “Software Requirements and Estimation” by the same authors (Swapna […]
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new agile-spirited blog
Just added http://softwareresults.blogspot.com/ to our blogroll. It’s a newly-started blog by Dave Moran (I discovered it and him through LinkedIn); check it out and see if it interests you, too!
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peer code review
today I ordered a copy of free book on peer code review secrets, based on a quick read of the Cisco case study writeup which is freely downloadable from the same link. I will post back here when I know what I think of the book.
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book: Beautiful Code
today a colleague at work, whose opinion I value, recommended the book Beautiful Code to me, as one of the best he had read in a long time. I did a quick search tonight and found lots of plaudits for the book, as well as an interesting dissent.
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choosing strategies
Today I found an essay on choosing development strategies which briefly references PSP and TSP. I generally agree with the essay’s principles and arguments, and the main point that one size does not fit all. But I noticed that the descriptions of PSP and TSP were rudimentary at best - a one-liner on the assumed […]
