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Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Psychology: Humans Will Justify Almost Anything

This is an excellent article on cognitive dissonance. Frued had it slightly wrong as this is what really drives behavior.

(tags: cognitive dissonance psychology emotion happiness)

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Impact of Overtime on Productivity

“More features will always bring more revenue, more customer satisfaction, other good things. Therefore there is always pressure for people to work harder, longer hours. This is demonstrably a Bad Idea. Here’s some evidence, and some ideas about how to kn

(tags: jeffries agile management leadership productivity programming software coding business via:klobetime)

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

40 Fastest-Growing Software Companies

BMC, Openwave, Red Hat, and some other interesting software companies listed here…

(tags: via:mrchippy via:cote software company fastest growing BMC Openwave Vignette Oracle Microsoft)
Alistair Cockburn on what’s agile, what’s not

Ouch, by Alistair’s standards, most companies are not agile; however, I do agree with him that the word is way over/mis-used

(tags: cockburn agile software crystal scrum)

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Regular exercise is no longer optional

This is a great article. I’ve written many things about the benefits of exercise. Making a career and business case for doing is another motivational method, beyond the obvious reasons.

(tags: career fitness work exercise health via:bwhichard)

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Column info : 11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail

11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail - You can tell that Jean knows what she’s talking about. These “weaknesses” are difficult to keep out of the Agile process.

(tags: agile software jean adoption process)

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting

I like this article but tend to disagree with the individual contributor attending in place of the scrum master. I’m not sure how one individual contributor would know what the entire team did.

(tags: scrum agile cohn software sos meeting)
The True Role of a PM on Agile Projects

I like this quote: “it is almost impossible for leaders to over communicate project vision and it is a critical step for effective leadership”

(tags: agile ProjectManagement pm scrum software)

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