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Start small and get something, anything done today
One of the greatest feelings in the world is finishing up a project, getting that laundry all done and put away, finally fixing that leaky faucet or you know launching that side project that you’ve been working on for the last 6 months. Conversely, one of the worst feelings in the world is looking at [...]
Weathering the storm
One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories that needed pointing so they [...]
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Cross Post: Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM
Thought I would repost something I wrote for my companies blog here, it’s exciting news and I thought it would be appropriate to share!
Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM
NIRI and Web 2.0
For the past 2 years the amazing sales team that I work with at Q4 Web Systems have ventured out to San Diego for the annual NIRI conference. It’s a really important event for us and it’s always great to hear about it when the team get’s back.
This morning while I was going through [...]
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Rocks and Rewards!
So as part of our company alignment and implementing the Rockefeller Habits at Q4 our quarterly theme was moving rocks together. We set aside a room with a video camera and plates with peoples names on them, if you felt the urge to recognize someone you could go into the room and record a short [...]
How often do you commit?
I was working on some code today and was getting ready to do a check in and I thought to myself, should I be checking this code in? I made tiny change that would end up being part of a bigger refactoring of some tests I was writing, I wasn’t sure if I would be [...]
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What do you do when the shit hits the fan?
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
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Semantics, language and meaning
As an employee of a software development it’s fairly common to have people of many nationalities and cultural backgrounds as co-workers. More and more people from around the world come to Canada and the United States to find jobs in the tech industry, bringing there ample skills and knowledge to the companies they work for. [...]
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Twitter, where is the value?
I’ve been using twitter for about 6 months with varying degrees of “using”. Sometimes it’s a passive view where I see what other people are doing and not really broadcasting what I am doing, other times it’s lot’s of little wonderful nuggets out of my life that make it on there, and the occasional [...]
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