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I've got a masters degree in computer science and over 10 years of experience building web-based systems using Java/J2EE, Ruby, Rails and PHP. I'm a strong believer in the effectiveness of Agile Methods. Read more »Subscribe
Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
Agile Leadership
Pick up a few tips on how to effectively lead the curious, experimental breed known as Engineers.
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Document Templates for Entrepreneurs
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Entrepreneurship videos from Stanford
A wealth of information from successful entrepreneurs is available on the Stanford website. Highly recommended viewing.
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The success of GameClay
Here’s a great post to read for anyone who’s interested in technology entrepreneurship. It’s titled “Postmortem”. And it’s all about the the lessons learned from the experience of trying to get GameClay off the ground. It’s probably counter-intuitive to many people, but failure is one of the things I really like to see on the [...]
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100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down
Just a good reminder. Every good idea needs a champion. Here are 100 reasons why.
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Incremental Is Still Waterfall
Gojko Adzic posted yesterday about the waterfall trap for agile projects. In his post he makes the point that iterative development is not equivalent to incrememtal development. Iterative implies that with each iteration the entire application will be the result. Each successive iteration will contain a greater level of detail than the iteration before it. [...]
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The Innovators Dilemma and the Enterprise
I came across this post by Jason Hunter on The Innovators Dilemma from 2005. Jason Hunter is a big name in the J2EE/XML space if you don’t know who he is. Here’s the nut of the article: … you can listen to customers, provide them with what they want, but still lose out — because [...]
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What’s missing from bug and task tracking