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Scott Amler’s article “Scaling Agile Development Via Architecture” in the November 2006 issue of Agile Journal summarizes strategies for Agile teams regarding architecture, and argues that an effective approach to architecture is an important aspect of scaling agile software development. 1. Focus on collaboration over documentation. “Agile architects” are … not simply people who document [...]

Paul Kedorsky commented top pc services in comparison to mobile services: “There is some fascinating data in a new comScore release comparing reach for various popular web services across PC and mobile platforms. Weather, sport, and email draw disproportionately on mobile (as would realtime parking data, if it were available there, darn it), and search [...]

Om Malik (founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc.) broke the news about Adobe’s secret VoIP start-up project. Tom Keating (CTO, VP, Founder of TMC Labs) gave some highlights from his interview with Bhana back in June, which gives some really interesting insights to what Adobe is up to and how this could have a huge impact on [...]

This is one of the 5 “Lessons From The Death Of A Web 2.0 Startup”, from the creator of online calendar Kiko, a Google Calendar competitor: Google Is The New Microsoft: Back in the day, lots of software companies made sure that their business models kept them out of the cross-hairs of Microsoft. They didn’t [...]

Example: “The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.” —Steve C. McConnell, Software Project Survival Guide (more at codequotes.com ) by Neal Enssle.

Managing is about systems and processes and resources; leading is about achievement and vision. — Peter McDougall You can’t control what you can’t measure. -Tom DeMarco Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction. —Tom DeMarco I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn [...]

I posted some quite interesting articles from Paul Lemberg (the President of Quantum Growth Coaching): Thought Leader Articles by Paul Lemberg: (formerly posted in strategy – still not migrated in my new weblog) 10 Qualities of a Transformational Leader What does a transformational leader need to know? Who do they need to be? Six Ways [...]

1. What industry sites and blogs do you read regularly? 2. Do you prefer to work alone or on a team? 3. How comfortable are you with writing HTML entirely by hand? (+exercise) 4. What is the w3c? 5. Can you write table-less XHTML? Do you validate your code? 6. What are a few of [...]

A non-complete list of all the web 2.0 companies out there. Multiply the total by 10 to consider all the ones not included in the list. Who says there is no hype? web 2.0 companies list (at my web 2.0 section) Of course it’s time to think about the web 2.0 hype, i found this [...]

1. Keep business experts away, far away, from integrators and developers. If the people building the solution don’t talk with the people who need the solution, then the project will fail every time. Admittedly, driving a wedge between creators and users is a lot easier when you’re a manager, but even average workers can keep [...]