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September 2009 - Posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:03 AM

Why do I sit in a cube all day?

Oh wait, I don’t, and neither does Matt Heusser . In his most recent post over at Testing at the Edge of Chaos, he devotes a section to challenging why we co-locate at all any more. As somebody who has recently shaped my life to get out of that geographical
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:10 PM

I have heard of kanban!

My friend Matt Heusser recently posted a perspective on kanban that I feel warrants a bit of discussion. I greatly respect Matt and his opinions on testing, software, and life in general. I feel that this post provides me a great opportunity to address
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:13 AM

Shu Ha Ri for Kanban systems

Context A recent discussion on the kanbandev list interested me because it really brought a focus on what we mean when we say “kanban”. First, David Anderson posted: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, netherby_uk wrote: (#1) kanban (small k) - meaning signal
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:39 PM

Feature, and feature, and feature

Feature, and feature, and feature, Slide in their petty pace from queue to queue, To the last release of recorded value; And all our builds have lighted fools The way to techie debt. Out, out, beta users! Code's but an indented shadow, a poor representation
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