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05 Sep

Scrum : a serious guide.

Scrum is hot! Since it’s all technical mumbo-jumbo, you can use this cheat sheet to pretend you know what you’re talking about. Post-its are the only tools you need to deliver...

03 Sep

When you drop sugar, you’ll get ants.

by Mike

in Software development

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Why your kitchen is crawling with software vendors We all know stories about companies outsourcing their development to some shady low cost firm and getting sub-par results in return. “If you...

30 Apr

Stop using Story Points!

by Mike

in Agile, Scrum

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Why you should quit them and what to do instead. People are notoriously bad at estimating how long something will take. What they are good at is comparing things and evaluating...

20 Apr

Coding, Salty Spaghetti and limiting beliefs

by Mike

in Software development

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I was sitting on the bed in my student flat when a friend suggested we’d “make spaghetti or something” for dinner. While I considered myself to be pretty independent by...

14 Apr

Herd the nerd

by Mike

in Software development

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When people are asked to describe an IT team, they break out the Moss and Roy stereotypes. You know, nerds, right? They have limited social skills and play videogames 5...

03 Mar

How to lead software projects like a Real Manager : a quick guide.

by Mike

in Humor, Project Management

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Around 70 percent of software projects fail. If you are still in the boring 30% that delivers predictable quality instead of chaotic rock ‘n roll, fear no more. This guide...