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[Update: in response to some of the comments here and on HN, I thought it might be worth updating with a note on my personal experience with Agile, which appears at the bottom of the post.] Agile (with a big 'A') has become so mainstream now that it has started to become the problem. An alarming number of people who espouse the virtues of Agile, and who quote the Agile Manifesto believe that Agile is a project management methodology, and that Agile really means SCRUM, XP, Kanban, and that it is embodied in the daily stand-up, whiteboards or writing requirements on post-it notes.The Command and Control Management Method - Joel on Software
Frederick the Great [PDF] : “Soldiers should fear their officers more than all the dangers to which they are exposed.... Good will can never induce the common soldier to stand up to such dangers; he will only do so through fear.” The Command and Control form of management is based on military management. Primarily, the idea is that people do what you tell them to do, and if they don’t, you yell at them until they do, and if they still don’t, you throw them in the brig for a while, and if that doesn’t teach them, you put them in charge of peeling onions on a submarine, sharing two cubit feet of personal space with a lad from a farm who really never quite learned about brushing his teeth. Some managers use this technique because they actually learned it in the military.
In her previous post, the Cranky Product Manager unloaded on Code Boys & Grils who don't fix their damn bugs . She dropped the eff bomb and everything. Indeed! This post is the flip side. The developer's point of view when faced with a nasty bug. And it's an extremely well-written piece by a Code Boy who is a reader of this humble and cantakerous blog.
Guest Post from a CodeBoy: The Five Stages of Debugging — The Cranky Product Manager
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The title sounds bombastic but hopefully the content is going to be trivial… For anyone who’s been doing software provisioning in a non trivial environment this post should only be calling names to things he may already know. Yesterday I was chatting with Nati Shalom and we were analyzing the difficulties of maintaining software for non-trivial web services, backend services or anything along these lines. We got the the conclusion that the various difficulties could be categorized into three different categories and so we named them as The Vertical , The Horizontal and the Depth axis (for lack of better name, I’m still looking for a better name to replace Depth).Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse
Editor’s note :This guest post is part of an in-depth series looking at the daily deal industry written by Rocky Agrawal , an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. Read Part I, Part II , and Part III also. He blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster .
See, Pivotal Labs quietly helps dozens of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world, including freight trains like Groupon and Twitter. If your start-up needs to get good coding done quickly, as in lightning fast — or if new hires need to get good at coding quickly — top venture capitalists are likely to look over their shoulder and confide: “Call Pivotal Labs.”
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Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
I love programming. I can truly say that of all the things I enjoy, I enjoy programming the most. There's nothing quite like the feeling you get when you create something. Writing code is a lot like building your own little universe. When you build stuff, you're in complete control, and, no matter how hard you fight it, your code directly reflects yourself. If you write sloppy code, I can almost guarantee you'll be a sloppy person.
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As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed this vital question, so I started this one.
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Last month, I took a little break from all the hustle and bustle of the Internets and decided to focus on trying to get a better handle on my daily life. It included eating right, working out and, in short, decompressing. I was trying to use a month-long break to change life-long behaviors such as staying up late, working long hours and more often than not, eating erratically.INVEST in user stories | Web Builder Zone
User stories are the basic units of work for Agile methodologies.O'Reilly Webcast: Ten Things Every Software Architect Should Know
This is the slide deck used in Richard Monson-Haefel’s webcast "10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know."I recently finished 97 Things every programmer should know . Well to be completely honest I did skim over a couple of the 97, but all and all this was a very nice compilation of thoughts and topics about software development from very experienced authors. Well worth a read.
Top 9 of 97 Things every programmer should know
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK Guide ) is a book which presents a set of standard terminology and guidelines for project management . The Fourth Edition (2008) was recognized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as an American National Standard (ANSI/PMI 99-001-2008) and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — IEEE 1490-2011. [ 1 ] [ edit ] History
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