XP is not harder than Scrum. Or easier. The problem/challenge (depending on how you look at it) for any successful adoption of a practice is the willingness of people to change what they are doing now, and stick to it. If people do not commit, to say, daily stand-ups they wouldn’t do it, even though
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I had a great moment at work last week. It was of the things that with zero work, I got a win-win-win situation. A few weeks ago I caught a tweet from Eric about him presenting on EF. I replied with a link to a video, that was made by Muhammad Mosa, one of our
I read this post and really sympathized. I see that a lot of these in software – there’s a new flavor of the month every, well month. And we forget how we got to this point. And then we throw away the baby with the bathwater. And then we do it again. Another thing we
In the discussions we had in alt.net last week, specifically the one on teaching and learning, Ohad talked about having the need to consult with other architects. (He went on to found the IASA Israeli chapter). And then he asked – if you’re one of the guys who want to learn, yet you don’t have
Yesterday was Alt.Net Israel 3rd meeting. I missed the pre-meeting on Thursday, and came in only for the discussions on Friday. There were a couple of differences from earlier Alt.Net conferences. The first, is that topics were grouped together to mini-“tracks”. So the time allocated was for a couple of topics (and sometimes we even
Is man destined to choose the quick and dirty road, throwing away long term benefits? While the answer is probably yes (we’re all lazy like that), two dissimilar events in the last week made me think – maybe that’s not the right question. Maybe we need to check how long term are we talking about.
A week ago, Valve announced Portal 2. If you didn’t play the first Portal, well, I’m really sorry. Go play it, I’ll wait. It’s not a long game. Done? Good. The announcement came after a short marketing ploy. Valve owns Steam, a software delivery system (it also does licenses and lifetime management. I wonder if
In my interview with Uncle Bob, he mentioned a special model of apprenticeship. If people are to grow within a company in skills and experience, they need time. But if people change jobs every 2 years in average, how does that going to happen? What if you could switch jobs, on the job? Two companies
.. and why I’m willing to live with it. Brian Harry has started a series of posts on how he writes code. By the way, he is responsible to manufacture a small software package called Microsoft TFS, so I usually listen to what he has to say, The first posts refer to both his iterative