Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 07/27/2010
There’s an interesting interview with the creators of Twig, Objectify-Appengine, and SimpleDS, which are all ORM-like frameworks built for the GAE that facilitate working with the underlying datastore (an abstraction of Bigtable). If you haven’t worked with GAE, you need to know that the exposed hip datastore isn’t relational — it’s schema-less and more like a key/value store; consequently, the JDO features exposed by default tend to leave people a bit... more »
Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 07/25/2010
I learned this week that I made the Top Women in Business Blogging list. They tell me my readers nominated me. Dear readers, thank you!
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Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 07/23/2010
I’ve been working with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on an agile architecture workshop. I’m working with Rebecca because she has such a depth of experience in architecture, as well as design. She’s working with me because of my project and program management experience. We’re pretty psyched.
We’re working through the issues of large programs and architecture, and, of course, we have encountered the develop by component vs. develop by feature debate. I’m closer to... more »
Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 07/22/2010
I’m proud and pleased to be on the list of LiquidPlanner’s Top Project Management Thinkers. I’m thrilled, too!
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Posted by:
Bob Payne
on 07/14/2010
Jean and I discuss Lynchpin the recent book by Seth Godin. We both enjoyed this book and found it to be a good guide for any agile change agent. I especially like his ideas around Gift Culture. Not revolutionary but a good book.
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Enjoy.
-bob payne
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Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 07/08/2010
It’s a good thing I said my post about musings was just that–musings! I didn’t bring all of you along. Sorry about that. Let me be more clear.
A program is a collection of projects, where the value is in the overall deliverable. Yes, each project may have a deliverable that’s valuable, but the value to the organization is when all the sub-projects get together and deliver their product. Here’s an example. Think of a cell phone. One sub-project might be the... more »
Posted by:
Bob Payne
on 07/06/2010
Ryan talks about the acquisition of Agile Zen as an addition to the Rally family of agile tools. I have not really spent much time with Ryan before this interview and I was excited to talk with him about his passion for giving.
Enjoy
- bob payne
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Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 07/06/2010
I’ve been working with organizations who want to move their programs to agile. They’ve been successful with small projects. But now, they want to make agile work with large programs, programs that involve hardware or firmware, programs with many pieces of interdependent software features, programs of 50 to 300 (or more!) people.
Now, you might say that we should not even try to do programs of 300 people. That 300 people are too many and it’s too difficult to manage ... more »
Posted by:
Bob Payne
on 06/29/2010
I chatted with Payson Hall for the first time at ADP West. We talked about the broken model of Fixed Price contracts and the challenges of working in the public sector with agile methods.Hope you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed recording it.-bob payne
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Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 06/29/2010
In June, I taught PSL with Esther and Jerry. We had a blast. So did the participants. Part of why PSL is so much fun is that we use simulations.
With a simulation, you create a safe environment in which people can experiment with learning a new skill or seeing how they operate. There are two critical pieces to the simulation:
Creating a safe environment in which people can work. No one can learn if they feel unsafe.
Debriefing the simulation. If you don’t debrief, you... more »
Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 06/23/2010
My column at Gantthead, The Agile Project Manager: To Facilitate, Serve and Protect is posted. Enjoy!
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Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 06/21/2010
A twitter follower asked if I could provide a link to a “discussion of tactical vs strategic planning/projects?” Here you go:
Strategic work is a management role. It involves setting the direction for the organization (or group), deciding what to do and what not to do, who to hire and when. If it involves committing the organization to money in some way, that’s strategic work. Here are some examples (not an exhaustive list): managing the project portfolio, deciding on a... more »
Posted by:
Bob Payne
on 06/19/2010
Dale and I chat in sunny Vegas. We spoke about his presentations, training and our lives as consultants. If you have not met Dale you should get yourself out to sunny California and attend his training in July.I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I enjoyed recording it.-bob
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Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 06/17/2010
As part of the Amazon Web Services family, Amazon’s SimpleDB is a massively scalable and reliable key/value datastore, which is exposed via a web interface and can be accessed using any language you’d like — from Java to Ruby to Perl to C#. In fact, Amazon has recently released a standardized SDK for both the .NET and Java platforms.
Check out IBM DeveloperWorks’ newest article entitled “Cloud storage with Amazon’s SimpleDB, Part 1” — in... more »
Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 06/17/2010
I often meet people who are transitioning to agile, and they decided to pick Scrum, because it’s a helpful project management framework. Ok, that makes sense. But then they decide that they no longer need project managers, and that the development manager can act as the Scrum Master.
The Scrum Master is not a management position. The Scrum Master protects the team’s process and removes the team’s obstacles. For me, the Scrum Master is analogous to the project manager.... more »
Posted by:
Andrew Glover
on 06/10/2010
Recently a bogue error popped up with an existing Grails project at a client site. In an effort to abstract core domain logic (i.e. business rules) for a financial application, we decided to leverage Drools; consequently, after some prototyping of rules in a non-Grails project, we decided to start evaluating the Grails Drools plugin.
After installing said plugin, however, Grails failed to start up, instead issuing the error:
java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: loader... more »
Posted by:
Neal Ford
on 06/09/2010
Disclaimer:I'm a hard-core lover of Apple products; between my wife & I, we own 4 Macs. However, I also hate Apple's stance as a company on lots of topics. In fact, I would probably never use their products if they weren't so damn good. I'm just disclaiming that I may not be objective (although I try to be).I was not one of the early enthusiasts for the iPad when it was first announced. I did not pre-order one and really had no interest in one until I had a chance to touch one. It... more »
Posted by:
Johanna Rothman
on 06/06/2010
The people who are organizing Your Team Needs Women have a good idea–diversity in teams. I have a problem with how they are doing it.
I have tried to contribute to the agile community, chairing the Agile 2009 conference, speaking at user groups, writing for a number of outlets, working with my clients. I do those things because I love my work. I don’t do them because I’m female. I provide a type of diversity, more because of my age and experience than my gender.
How... more »
Posted by:
Esther Derby
on 06/03/2010
Too often, manager in organizations act as if changing behavior in an organization is a simple matter of “make it so.” Some changes are like that–but most significant changes are not.
Systems drive behavior. Therefore, if you want to change behavior in an organization–increase accountability or teamwork for example– you need to understand the factors that are driving the current pattern. Telling people to change the way they act (push) or talking about a... more »
Posted by:
Venkat Subramaniam
on 05/29/2010
This is a collection of some thoughts that I've expressed over tweets...
Using
profanity doesn't make us expressive, it simply shows we're vulgar and lacking.
I
think, history will say, Scala & Clojure are to FP as C++ is to OOP.
"safety" in type safety is as comforting as "security" in social security.
Design patterns are the clichés of software design.
I've found intuition and gut feeling to be the most useful tools for design so... more »
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