Posts with keyword: agile

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Agile Roots, ErrorStack, Phones, and Games

Thu May 28 09:46:00 2009

At this morning's CTO Breakfast Kay Johansan announced her upcoming Agile Roots conference in Salt Lake City on June 15-16. This looks like a high quality confernce and it's nice to see it local. Tyler Whitaker also demonstrated the new graphing capabilities in ErrorStack. As someone building a distributed system, I love the idea of ErrorStack--a cloud-based error system that just does errors and does them well. I'll probably start using it to track errors for Kynetx. We got a look at the phone that Google gave out at IO yesterday. Someone who was there and got one showed
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Software Symposium 2006

Thu May 18 09:45:00 2006

No Fluff Just Stuff is hosting a software symposium on June 16-17. It's still not too late for the early bird discount. The program and content look pretty good if you're interested in Java and agile methodology. I'm a little miffed that it's on a Friday and Saturday. I generally boycott conferences on weekends and so don't plan on going. I resent the encroachment of these kinds of activities into what I consider my leisure and family time. But, if you don't and you're in the Salt Lake area, you might enjoy the conference.
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Getting Real

Fri Mar 3 10:33:00 2006

Last year at ETech (see you next week, BTW), I wrote about Jason Fried's talk on lessons learned building Basecamp, the online project management system from 37Signals. The talk was interesting and full of wisdom on how to build Web applications. now the folks at 37Signals have come out with suggestions in bookform, called Getting Real. The book is only available as a PDF. There are some sample chapters online, including one called Meetings Are Toxic (PDF). I've got a copy; there's some good stuff there.
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Cut the Vision in Half and Ship It

Tue Dec 13 09:52:00 2005

How many of us can relate to this? Moral: If you find yourself talking more than walking, shut up, cut the vision in half, and launch it. You can always fill in the gaps later. In fact, you'll know more about what gaps need to be filled after you've launched "half a feature" than if you tried to fill them in before launching anything. From Simple means launching something - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)Referenced Tue Dec 13 2005 09:52:40 GMT-0700 (MST)
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Lessons Learned Building Basecamp

Wed Mar 16 15:38:00 2005

San Diego (click to enlarge) I wrote about Basecamp a few days ago. Jason Fried, president of 37Signal, the company behind Basecamp is talking about the lessons he learned building it. Brian would like to get Jason out to Utah to give one of these. The right people. Its not about their skills beyond the basics. It's about finding people who are positive, well rounded, quick learners, trustworthy, and good writers. Well rounded, in this context means that they aren't just an architect, or a DBA. "I'll take someone who is happy and average over a guru who is
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