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ETE 2010 #9 – Linda Rising – Deception and Estimation

We are pleased to release this recording of Linda Rising’s talk on Deception and Estimation.  This is a one-hour talk, and is a good talk about how we deceive ourselves in a number of ways in life in general, and of course in the estimation process. From the abstract: “Cognitive scientists tell us that we … Read More

ETE 2010 #8 – Bonnie Aumann – Are your developers BSing you?

Bonnie Aumann is an agile project manager and customer advocate for Algorithmics. Her ETE 2010 talk is entitled “Are your developers BS’ing you?” In this talk, she tries to cut through the potential blame game and IT culture issues by practicing rapid feedback and response, and Agile techniques. Her abstract “A question I’m often asked … Read More

ETE 2010 #7 – Audrey Troutt – Influencing your way to Agile

  Our ETE 2010 Session today is “Influencing your way to Agile” by Audrey Troutt. Audrey Troutt is a Software Engineer at the Drexel Math Forum.  She can be reached on twitter at @auditty. In this talk, Audrey describes ways to approach your team members, bosses, bosses bosses, and other types in a more productive, influential … Read More

Linda Rising at Philly ETE

I received some assistance in my attempt to videotape our speakers, from Ahsen Jaffer. Ahsen handled the Agile “room”. He was also instrumental in helping us book the Agile track. Here is his interview with Linda Rising with a recap of her talk – Deception and Estimation – How We Fool Ourselves. It was an … Read More

DevNews #9 – We Drizzle CouchDB all over the MySQL and Gradle it out to teams who pair…

Due to all of my various time constraints, this is the “Brown Bag” edition of the Developer news – now without jazz! Our show bookmarks can be found on: www.delicious.com/developernews/9 Thanks, Ken, Eric (apparently earlier I wrote Scott) & Gordon  

DevNews #5 – Clojure, Charting, Scripting is Groovy…

Sponsorship:  Our sponsor this week is the Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference.  Early bird registration is extended – get your tickets this week – more information, including our schedule, is available at phillyemergingtech.com.  Speakers include Uncle Bob Martin, Michael Cote, and many, many others. You can find the articles we’ve bookmarked at Delicious.com.  Our URL … Read More

TechCast #39 – Jon Kern and Corey Haines on Agile, Software Craftsmanship

A discussion with Jon Kern and Corey Haines about Agile, Pair Programming, Software Craftsmanship, and more. Show Notes: Corey Haines – Pair Programming Tour – http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/ Jon Kern’s web site, Technical Debt.  Here is a recent post on metrics (with links to Corey’s video)  to measure quality July ’09 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_07.html Software Craftsmanship – the movement … Read More