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When to be agile, and when not to be

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My opinions:
When to be agile

When you’re dealing with constantly changing requirements
When there’s a lot of uncertainty about how to build the system
When there’s a lot of variability - priority changes,…

Overcoming Bias

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I really, really enjoy this blog, and this video by the progenitor of the blog is a very nice introduction to the concepts.
All of us have biases that we don’t recognize.  It makes us better analysts to realize we…

The Interface to Yog-Sothoth

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Subtitled: The ever-changing API and the Path to Madness
Agile Software Development is (at least partially) about the fact that change happens in software projects, and, as practitioners, it is clear that resisting…

random snippets

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Other than some shared names, The Bourne Identity - the book - is virtually nothing like The Bourne Identity - the movie.
Pouncey Tract and Short Pump are both quite whimsical street names
The increase in gas mileage…

Random Sightings

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Today on the train ride in, I noticed an attractive woman, fairly tall, who looked suspiciously like Megan McArdle.   She got off at the Foggy Bottom station, which happens to be one of the closer stations to the…