July 2007 - Posts
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I'd like to take a look a management dilemma posed by Jack Welsh, former CEO of GE. It's posed as a classic 2x2 matrix (or Gartner Magic Quadrant chart). On one axis is the notion that a manager lives by the values of the organization, and on...
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I attended a talk by Jeff Sutherland at the Bellevue Harbor Club this afternoon. It was an invitation only event thrown by one of my suppliers. I wanted to capture a few memories from the event - and make them available to you all. Venture Capital. He...
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It's taken me a long time to come around to the view that SOA was more than just early 1970's procedural programming wrapped up in an open transport protocol. I've been widely skeptical of all the claims that "SOA is a new way of building...
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Last January I had a long chat with Luke Hohmann while we were both in Munich at the OOP conference. We talked about "getting beyond agile " and why we felt it was necessary and what we each had been doing that wouldn't be considered agile...
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History will probably record that either Grady Booch or Peter Coad invented Object Modeling with either Booch's 1986 treatise on OOD or Coad's (with Ed Yourdon) 1987 introductory tomb on OOA. While the OO paradigm probably belongs to O.J. Dahl...
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In response to the challenges of keeping our whiteboard up-to-date (see Do You Have Your Sticky Buddy? and Return of the Sticky Buddy ), we're introducing the use of a digital whiteboard application using a large LCD display. This is an experiment...
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I was researching my forthcoming blog post on David Hume and wanted to research the history of Object-oriented Analysis and Design. I decided to check Wikipedia as surely there had been enough time for someone literate in the academic past of the OO paradigm...
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In an ironic follow up to Do You Have Your Sticky Buddy? , Darren Davis, the development manager who coordinates resourcing on our sustaining engineering efforts and runs the daily standup for sustaining, was caught out recently. He decided to take a...
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Sanjiv Augustine, co-founder of the APLN , signatory of the Declaration of Interdependence and author of the excellent, Managing Agile Projects will be the first guest speaker at the APLN Seattle Downtown Chapter on August 6th. The meeting will be held...
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