This’ll be redundant for a lot of people but I’ve picked this blog up and moved it over to CodeBetter.
Note that my RSS feed hasn’t changed (more on how I managed that later) so this announcement is really for friends, enemies, frenimies, and lost Googlers that come to laribee.com or thebeelog.com straight up.
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I love this term: human amplification. I believe (but can’t find confirmation) that it comes from the U.S. Navy.
You know the idea. The Agile realm re-imagines the traditional manager as a sort of human amplifier. Let’s consider Scrum. One of the named roles in Scrum is the Scrum Master. It is the Scrum Master’s responsibility [...]
After a fairly slow end-of-August, I’m kicking it into overdrive with the whole community involvement routine. If you aren’t sick of me by now, well friends, my antics this October and November should do the trick. Here’s the rundown:
Oct 3 | Syracuse, NY | Syracuse .NET Developer’s Group
Rik Bardrof and I will be doing a [...]
Registration has opened for the ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference! The cat’s out of the bag, the gates are open, release the bats! We have a limit of 100 People so get while the getting’s good (looks like there’s ~33 openings at the time of this post). In the coming weeks we’ll be communicating with the [...]
Sure you’ve got the ReSharper 3.0 cheat sheet taped to your monitor, but what do you have that’s reminding you of values and principles? You need an Agile cheat sheet!
Luckily I’ve got one for you right here! Print it out and put it in your team room, tack it to your task board, and tape [...]
A great analogy for side-effects in your programs from Simon Peyton-Jones:
In the end any program must manipulate state. A program that has no side-effects whatsoever is is a kind of black box, right? You press go, and it runs, and all you can tell is the box got hotter.
Check out the video of his talk on [...]
I’m burning down some podcast backlog as I wait (and wait and wait) for a plane that’s been delayed (and delayed and delayed) when I hit part of a Hanselminutes episode featuring Jeff Atwood on the topic of building your own PC. At one point, he observes that it’s kind of nice to know what’s going [...]
A few days back I was reminded of Shuhari. It’s a concept originating from Japanese martial arts that describes a three stage self-development process where a student progresses from novice to expert to master.
Perfection is a pervasive theme in the larger Agile community. Scott Bellware makes an agreeable point saying we should focus on the verb, not the noun; Dave Nicolette [...]
