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Time box: Safety zone for Creativity, Cleanliness, and Sausage Stuffing
Without freedom, one’s creativity cannot bloom. ~ Dalai Lama On Creativity In his 2005 A Survey of Organizational Creativity, Wayne Morris of New Zealand found that 2 of the top 3 Factors that facilitate or enhance organizational creativity are Time and Space/resources to pursue…
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Expand Your Normal
I went for beers with a couple of coworkers today and a question came up that I get a lot. What’s the point of a kata? That’s an answer for you to come up with for yourself, but I’ll let you in on my secret obsession: I want to expand my normal. TL;DR I have an insatiable thirst…
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Time box: A Holistic View on Sprints and Iterations
Over the last few years we’ve seen a growing discontent around the idea of Iterations or Sprints. It excites me that the software community is actively engaged in questioning the long held canon of Agile practices. Through these explorations we as an industry will find a greater…
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Definition of Done Discovery
One of the important aspects of Scrum and the more fundamental concept incremental delivery is building Done software each iteration. There are a lot of holes in that statement, but that makes sense; Scrum is full of holes … on purpose. If you want answers rather than a framework…
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Your Test Suite Sucks… do it again
A pretty smart dude I worked with once told this story of a team he was on. They spent a few days, maybe even a week, deploying their app. It was painful, obviously. They’re response: “That sucked. Let’s do it again tomorrow.” Most people try to avoid hard things or at least…
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Code Kata Constraints
I’ve accumulated a number of great constraints over the moderate time I’ve been involved with katas. With Cincy Clean Coders and Dayton Clean Coders new constraints keep coming both creative participants and crazy things I pull from the morass between my ears. I can’t imagine…
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Full Speed Ahead!
The last few years have been pretty intense in my career. I’ve never been one to sit idle, but I’ve pushed it pretty hard. I’m pretty happy with the course it’s run. A few exceptions, sure, but who bats 1000? Over that time, I’ve taken my experiences on awesome teams and tried to…
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Ready. Set. Oh yeah! Consular to start your project environment
I have a number of cool tools that run in a watching pattern while I work my nodejs apps. I use guard to watch package.js, Gemfile and some others. node-dev watches the app as a whole and restarts my node app. vows is watching the world to run my tests. It’s really nice to forget…
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#accus Saturday Schedule
Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Tags: Coaching Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
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libnotify support for expresso
Warning: Linux, Terminal, vim and Continuous Testing ahead. Not a fan? Did you know Continuous testing is coming to Visual Studio vNext? Yeah – it’s that good an idea! Go get NCrunch for VS 2010 or the preview of VS 2011. I recently switched from vows to expresso for my nodejs…