Autor: Tim Strehle

Gojko Adzic – How To Solve “Not Enough Time”: “Teams track velocity as story points, number of items implemented. Instead, we should be tracking value delivered. That is the real velocity. That is the real outcome. Any improvement to the software delivery process should speed up the rate with which we deliver value, not effort.”

Matthias Marschall (in 2011) – The three essentials of any agile process: “By making progress (and bottlenecks) visible, helping people focus, and pulling together as a team, everyone starts to be proud of what they’re doing. Suddenly, they want to be responsible for the whole story (not just an implementation detail). They start to take…

Searching the web for images you can actually (legally) use, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, is almost impossible: Google or Bing will show you millions of images, but have no clue under which terms you’re allowed to use them. Lots of “information silos” let professionals search for, and license, rights cleared images, from iStockphoto to…

Oliver Reichenstein – Sweep the Sleaze: “Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have…

Jeff Atwood – This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details: “Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and something customers tolerate. Your software, your product, is nothing more than a collection of tiny details. If you don’t obsess over all those details, if you think it’s OK…

Dustin Curtis – RIM’s Failed Hail Mary: “Instead, they released something uninspiring, uninteresting, and unfinished. That no one at RIM had the guts and authority to recognize the seriousness of their situation–the company is literally dying!–and say, “Hey, maybe we should wait until BlackBerry 10 is awesome before we release it,” is an ultimate demonstration…

Scott Adams – Dilbert comic strip for 05/07/2012: “Every user we talked to was an idiot, and their dumb suggestions ruined our product.”

Bassam Tarazi – The Accountability Effect [PDF]: “We in the West live at an unprecedented time in human history. Our world is filled with mass consumption and physical comforts that would make someone from a previous century fall over with disbelief. […] The word “can’t” does not have the same clout it once did. You…

Jon Udell – Owning Your Words: Personal Clouds Build Professional Reputations: “So now blogs do have forum-style comments which concentrate discussion but recreate the original problems: attenuation of identity, loss of ownership of data. Could we have the best of both worlds? Here’s how it might work. I want to participate in a comment thread…

Aaron Levie – The Simplicity Thesis: “A fascinating trend is consuming Silicon Valley and beginning to eat away at rest of the world: the radical simplification of everything. […] Any service putting the burden on end users to string together multiple applications to produce the final working solution should consider its days numbered. Any product…