As some of you may know, I’ve talked about agile methodologies in software development in previous blog posts (see links below). The topic of Agile methods still seems to be quite hot these days and many organizations want to ‘go agile’ and many vendors sell themselves as being ‘agile’. This is great….but many of these [...]
Going Live…
February 25, 2008 By 2 Comments
I’ve been a little quite lately due to being extremely busy with the Boy Scouts of America. We recently migrated the main site from a flat file HTML system to a content managed system using Sitecore CMS. The migration was a learning experience due to Sitecore’s completely customizable architecture…but…we got it done. The new site [...]
Tyner Blain – “Specializing Generalists’
February 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I just read an interesting article at Tyner Blain titled “Specializing Generalists and the Politics of Agile“that is a good follow up to my “Better to be a Generalist or Expert?“article. An excerpt is: By staffing a team with people who have an area of expertise, but can do anything, you can maximize the value [...]
Experience vs ability
February 14, 2008 By 6 Comments
Jeff Attwood over at Coding Horror wrote a great article titled “The Years of Experience Myth” that everyone should add to their ‘must read’ list. The article discusses the use of phone screens to in the hiring process (and points to a couple of great articles on the topic) but the point of the article [...]
Buzzword Bingo Strikes again
February 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’m sure most of us have heard of “Buzzword Bingo” and some have probably played it a time or too. It’s a fun game that should get people thinking about their communication style…and it appears that Oracle’s PR people should have looked into it prior to releasing their latest press release. Here’s the first paragraph [...]
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