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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Sunday Review: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Great practical advice on how to become a better programmer. If you write code [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, excellence, pair programming, programming, reading
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Sunday Book Review: Getting Things Done by David Allen
humbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: So simple, yet so powerful. We used to purchase this book and issue [...]
Arkayne Recommendation Engine
When people claim Arizona is a technical wasteland they are clearly confused. There are smart people here doing cool things. I have been using Arkayne for several months and have been quite pleased. Easy to setup, configure and manage. While [...]
Oblivious To The Things You Do
Sometimes when you are in the heat of doing things you become completely oblivious to how things are being perceived by others. At AgileOpenNorthwest we were talking about Agile software development and started to talk about Where Are Your Keys. [...]
Posted in Agile, Education, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal
Tagged Education, Gangplank, innovation, Integrum, Productivity
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1% Improvement Over Time Is Significant
Who wants to be 1% better? Not very many people.
Who wants to be 50% better? Significantly more people.
Who wishes they could be perfect? Most people.
I had heard the quotes “Perfection not a destination, it is a journey that never ends” [...]
Posted in Agile, Personal, Productivity
Tagged Agile, discipline, excellence, motivation, Productivity, theory
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Now is the Time to Setup a 401k for your Startup
I have decided to start sharing a little more about the things I do on a day to day basis. Mostly, they seem boring and uninteresting to me, but I am always amazed when sharing experience how someone can find [...]
Sunday Book Review: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Best book on the market about writing user stories. Mike makes agile easy [...]
Sunday Book Review: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Too clinical of a writing style made it hard to stay engaged, but content [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, discipline, excellence, incentives, influence, motivation, reading
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CenPhoCamp Presentation
I got the honor of presenting at CenPhoCamp recently and really enjoyed it. I have lots of thoughts on the subject, but am too busy doing to talk about them. Good problem to have I suppose. Here are my slides [...]
