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25 Jul

2006

Agile 2006 Conference – Day 2 Report

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Sessions I Attended KEYNOTE, Peter Coffee, Technology Editor of eWeek Magazine The keynote address was delivered by Peter Coffee, Technology Editor of eWeek magazine, and was effectively a list of books that we should read with some observations thrown in that were implied to be gleaned from the books being mentioned. Although delivered in monotone, I was […]

25 Jul

2006

Agile 2006 Conference – Day 1 Report

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Day 1 of the Agile 2006 Conference was marginally valuable for our team. While we were unsure of what to expect, what we have have found has been primarily amateurish presentations and divergent messages from the presenters. Agile Practices 1 David Hussman spoke about how he was a hippy and effectively laid out the case for Agile for people […]

24 Jul

2006

A Hilarious Question

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I just heard a great lecture by Mike Cohn on Agile estimation techniques. At the end of the lecture, an audience member asked a question that almost made me spew water out of my nose. “As a team gets better at Agile, do they start using man hours instead of points?” I refrained from standing up and […]

23 Jul

2006

My Lifehack to Scrum the Family

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Scrum as a technique for managing a team of people with common goals works very well. Indeed, it works damned well. This has been demonstrated in more cases than I can cite for software development, but where else does Scrum work to help us get things done? I have heard of successful attempts to use […]

23 Jul

2006

Agile 2006 – Day 1

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I am here in Minneapolis with 4 of the other crew from work and we are in attendance at Agile 2006. Last night we at some of the best Indian food I have ever had at a resteraunt within walking distance and then came back to the hotel to play pool on slanted tables for […]

22 Jul

2006

Apple Advocates Proliferating

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Is is just me, or are more and more people looking at Apples as a viable home computer option these days? I just came back from dinner with a developer and his family (neighbors) and his house is full of Apple computers. The guy is an engineer at HP, for the love of Pete! In […]

6 Jul

2006

Slick Edit

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

After 2 years, having this blog has finally become worth it. I recently received a free copy of SlickEdit from a representative at the company who somehow came across my blog. Given the generosity and proactive outreach from SlickEdit, I think it only fair to review the software in public. Unfortunately, now that I am […]

6 Jul

2006

Where Have I Been

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I haven’t posted in awhile, and even before that my posts had become sparse. I have been experiencing one of the weirdest phases of my professional life yet and have been a bit reticent to post about it. I still am a bit gun shy about professional subjects, so to get you up to date […]