INME Friday: BADBADNOTGOOD
Someone asked me, “What is that INME?” INME = I Need More Ears = There’s so much good music out there, I can’t listen to it all with just my two ears…I need more ears!! Saw these guys at SXSW. Love...
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Why is Gmail not part of Google+?
I spend a lot of my day using Gmail. In fact, all of Google’s productivity apps: mail, calendar, tasks and documents. I’m a big fan, as well. For the last two days, I’ve spent a few minutes poking...
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Poor Man’s Agile: Scrum in 5 Simple Steps
Egads! I was recently given a 478 page hard-cover textbook by a major educational publisher on Scrum. You gotta be kidding me. There is so much talk and writing about Agile and Scrum and, frankly, in...
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Poor Man’s Agile: A Follow-Up
My post about Scrum in 5 Simple Steps sparked a raging debate on Hacker News yesterday. One commenter, Tom Elders, was aggressively opposed to Agile and and felt like, “It’s lunacy. It has all the...
View ArticleINME Friday: Shad
Someone asked, “What is that INME?” INME = I Need More Ears = There’s so much good music out there, I can’t listen to it all with just my two ears…I need more ears!! I’ve been spending a lot of time...
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SPOILER ALERT: Downton Abbey Season 4 Plot Revealed
I don’t think I’ve ever written about a TV show before, so that’s a little off topic for this blog. But, whatever…it’s my blog, so I get to write about what I want to, and I felt like I had to get...
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Food for Thought: No Shipping, No Cry
Yesterday, my team observed that we’ve had fewer bugs to deal with lately because we shipped less code in the last two weeks. That caused me to whimsically tweet: I wasn’t expecting any responses, but...
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Mailbag: Is iPhone Video Good Enough Quality?
Yesterday, someone sent me an email asking this question: If I was able to get my top 20 customers to send a 30 second iPhone video saying why they love working with us…I want to mash them up for...
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Hawaii + 23 = Awesome!
If you’re not familiar with all sorts of idiosyncratic Internet subcultures, then this wouldn’t mean anything to you. But, if you are, then you would have smiled like I did when you saw this in the...
View ArticleHow Media and Memes Are Going All Topsy-Turvy
Do you remember the Harlem Shake? If you’re interested in the new media, then take a few minutes to read You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral—corporations did: Experts said the “Harlem Shake”...
View ArticleINME: My Oh My!
In honor of the Opening Day of baseball season, I present you a song so strong with nostalgia that it brings tears to my eyes almost every time I listen.
View ArticleThe Two Truest Things I’ve Read Today
The two truest things that I read today…both of them came from an article about Bitcoins: The Internet is a big fan of the worst-possible-thing. Many people thought Twitter was the worst possible way...
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What to Think about Online Privacy
Online privacy has been on my mind quite a bit this weekend, so I thought I’d share a few miscellaneous thoughts with you. This morning, an article about Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist at...
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What Responsibility Do Engineers Have for Online Privacy?
One of the reasons online privacy has been on my mind lately is because on Friday, I had dinner with a friend who is the Chief Privacy Officer at an online retailer with which we’re all familiar. What...
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If Gun Violence is the Answer, Then What is the Question?
Recently, I setup a script to automatically publish Joe Nocera’s daily Gun Report to my Twitter feed. We have to get the word out about how our country is suffering from gun violence and accidental...
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Top 5 Ways Rover.com Fetches Developers
Today, Geekwire published a guest post that I wrote about the challenges of recruiting at a startup. Due to the journalistic integrity of Geekwire, I couldn’t push Rover.com too much, but I will now....
View ArticleOG: The Original Agile
In response to my recent posts on Agile and Scrum (here and here) I received this e-mail today: Scott: My ISPI Newsletter pointed me to your piece about SCRUM/AGILE. I’ve been told that a piece I...
View ArticleINME Friday: Arctic Monkeys
Someone asked, “What is that INME?” INME = I Need More Ears = There’s so much good music out there, I can’t listen to it all with just my two ears…I need more ears!! One of the bands I’m looking most...
View ArticleMailbag: Why are you against QA?
A quick note in response to an email my friend Brent sent today: I recall an earlier conversation about your position on QA – and how you were adamantly against it. Do you have any blog posts /...
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