ashleymoran

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by ashleymoran 14y ago
Yes. More organisations should follow the lead of Bristol Council: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/07/when-zombies-a... - Most are are in the deplorable state of unpreparedness demonstrated by Leicester Council: http://www.bbc
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by ashleymoran 14y ago
Out of curiosity, which of the indicators of bad science from that letter do you believe apply to this article?
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How to answer "What is your greatest weakness?"(blog.patchspace.co.uk)
28 points by ashleymoran 15y ago|36 comments
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Coffee Shop Kanban: Is your dev team a Starbucks or a Costa?(blog.patchspace.co.uk)
14 points by ashleymoran 15y ago|3 comments
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Why You Shouldn't Hire More Developers(blog.patchspace.co.uk)
116 points by ashleymoran 15y ago|51 comments
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
Hi alttag. Can you explain your comment in more detail? The intent of the article is not to say that delays are good or bad, but that they are inherent and inevitable, and must be managed as such. Maybe you have a different interpretation?
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The Agile Waiting Game(blog.patchspace.co.uk)
18 points by ashleymoran 15y ago|4 comments
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
The biggest obstacle to me using TrollScript professionally is lack of testing tools. Troll-driven development is a fundamental tenet of XP which I'm not willing to forsake. Is anyone working on TSUnit or TSSpec? In addition, Cuke4Trolls wo
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
I think this is a case of premature optimisation. Trolls under Bridges is struggling to hit v1.0 due to the limited memory capacity of trolls, but someone is hard at work on a Node.js implementation of the interpreter. This will allow spawn
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The BarCamper's Guide to Bitcoin(aviewfromafar.net)
6 points by ashleymoran 15y ago|0 comments
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Why I dumped my free Dropbox account and paid for SpiderOak in under 24 hours(aviewfromafar.net)
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Never Let the Bottleneck Monitor Itself(blog.patchspace.co.uk)
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
Hi hammock, thanks for the comment (I'm the author). For some reason you've reminded me of the motivation factors Dan Pink talks about. I wonder if trying to commit to estimates makes our creativity degrade in the same way as paying cash bo
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
btilly, thanks for the reference to this. I've added it to my Goodreads list.
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
This is why Kanban and its focus on lead time is more valuable than Scrum and its focus on velocity, IMO.
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
Re "environmental contributions", that was part of the discussion, but thinking about it - estimating total effort and elapsed calendar time are very different!
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by ashleymoran 15y ago
Haha, yes. That is the bottom line. But once they ask "why?", then OMG, worms everywhere! My post is definitely not suitable for most management, but in a discussion with a bunch of fellow geeks, it did fit in with the discussion. Explainin
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Why Can't Developers Estimate Time?(blog.patchspace.co.uk)
250 points by ashleymoran 15y ago|126 comments
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Domain Specific Language Nonsense(stateofflow.com)
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by ashleymoran 16y ago
Thanks for the replies both. Yes, this is one of the issues I have found: honesty over the risk in a project can make you look more expensive if you don't explain it carefully. This is especially true in a young relationship, when the clien
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by ashleymoran 16y ago
This was not actually the case, but I realise my writing was not clear, so I've improved the wording in the story.
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by ashleymoran 16y ago
Thanks again for your comment, as you replied both here and on the blog, I'll repost my reply here: John, thanks for your detailed reply. Sorry I could not respond sooner. I realise that my writing was imprecise in places, so I've edited th
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by ashleymoran 16y ago
While you can get the benefit of clarity by stepping away from the keyboard for a while, I've found the best return is from test-driven development. TDD forces you to think about what you're trying to achieve before you try to solve the it.
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by ashleymoran 16y ago
The thing I found by far the most interesting is about the sales process / incentives. On the one hand, Apple is not encouraging dysfunctional competition within the team: > We aren't paid on commission, but you fear for your job if you