As a software developer, it requires vigilance to temper my tendency toward joining feature frenzy. Like you, I like to build features. My lazy inclination is to forget about asking why or how we...

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Esther Derby enumerates helpful considerations when Hiring for a Collaborative Team. I particularly like Esther’s advice to Involve the team in the hiring process.Many hiring managers in...

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As a WCF newbie, I experienced some wheel-spinning with a service this week. Here's a gotcha that made us swerve into the weeds, along with the solution we implemented. Our team gained traction...

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The Lean Startup concept - as championed by Eric Ries, Steve Blank, Andrew Chen, and others - is to move incrementally toward a viable business model using a tight feedback loop with potential...

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Google App Engine changes everything. Much of the out-of-the-gate resistance inherent in kicking out a new web app has been greased by Google. Google gives you essential software services,...

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A space starts as a lonely noun. Eventually it might be filled with other nouns. A space becomes a place when it is full of buzzing verbs. Project teams, team coaches, and community...

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The Problem I shouldn't be such a curmudgeonly troll when it comes to software tools that are supposed to make things easier for me. But I am. The Agile Tracking software I have used does not...

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Startup Pivoting At the Startup Lessons Learned conference last week, there was much ado about Pivoting. As Alan Cooper says in his post To Pivot, Or Not To Pivot, When a startup...

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Language helps us to frame problems and challenges. George Lakoff introduced me to how language frames arguments in the political sphere. Today I attended the DevJam simulcast of the...

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Software developers, like many mammals, are sheep-like and slow on the uptake. We spent the better part of a decade celebrating our avoidance of Big Design Up Front (BDUF). I jumped on the...

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