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The folks over at UserVoice are using Trello quite extensively throughout their development process. Founder Richard White describes it all in detail . Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel...
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My friend Noam Wasserman at Harvard Business School has spent years researching startups. His work is great, because he actually does real, quantitative research on the kinds of things that everybody has opinions about. Should you raise more money or...
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“The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young ‘incubator twerps’ strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. *** hoc ergo...
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This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering , the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky , the highly-regarded CS teacher at...
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Just a few months ago, we launched Trello , a super simple, web-based team coordination system. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and adoption has been very strong, even in its early, 1.0 state. Trello is new kind of development project for...
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I really enjoy teaching my company's requirement seminars. I enjoy it because, frankly, there really is no industry consensus of what a requirement is. As an instructor, I am free to say any darn thing I like. For an example as to the lack of consensus, client after client will tell me that they...
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Last week’s webinar on technical debt is now available for download .
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Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello , and both times, it was totally worth it. First, a little background. There...
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Around the time of Fog Creek Software's ten year anniversary, I started thinking that if we want to keep our employees excited and motivated for another ten years, we were going to need some new things to work on. It occurred to me that we could easily...
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I’ll be giving a free webinar on Managing Technical Debt on September 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. Here’s the registration link: http://adtmag.com/webcasts/2011/08/construx-managing-technical-debt.aspx?partnerref=con5 Here’s a brief overview: “Technical Debt” refers to delayed technical work that...
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Our 2011 Software Executive Summit registration is now open. We have an early bird registration special of $1000 off through August 15. Register today ! Our speaker focus this year is Software Thought Leaders, and once again we have an amazing lineup. We have the father of evolutionary development (Tom...
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Stack Overflow DevDays , the universe's best conference series for coders, is back, and it's bigger than ever! Here's the idea behind DevDays. You're a developer. You'd love to learn all the latest hot new technologies . Things like...
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Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people. Read More...
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The Stack Exchange network is already up to 51 sites on diverse topics, from math to cooking to science fiction. Each site is a community on its own, and each community has its own needs and values. Pouring a big fat algorithm in equal measures on top...
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We’re working on a series of two-day Stack Overflow conferences for the fall: “What’s this conference about? The idea for the original DevDays was to have high-bandwidth, intensive introductions to a wide variety of new technologies… the kinds of technologies...
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What do you do for lunch every day? Where do you eat it? With whom? I’ve been on teams that eat together every day, and it’s awesome. I’ve been on teams that don’t, and lunch every day is, at best, lonely. A lot of big tech companies have cafeterias,...
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Jeff Atwood and I have resumed our weekly podcast, formerly known as the Stack Overflow Podcast, now known as the Stack Exchange Podcast! Here are some ways to find us: On iTunes. If you have an iPhone or iPod that you sync to iTunes, you can set this...
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I’ll be giving a free webinar on the 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation on April 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. Here’s a link to sign up for it: http://adtmag.com/webcasts/2011/03/construx-10-deadly-sins-of-software-estimation.aspx?partnerref=con4 . Here’s the overview: The average...
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The Scrum Alliance Scrum Gathering conference is in Seattle this year, May 16-18, 2011. I’ll be giving the morning keynote on the second day. I’m excited to be able to share some of the details of Construx’s experiences helping organizations move to organization-wide Scrum. Here are the details about...
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I’m working with Ryan Nelson and Mike Morris at University of Virginia to conduct a new survey of software estimation in practice. If you can take just a few minutes to answer some survey questions, this will help us get an update on the kinds of estimation practices people are actually using today....
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The snack room at Stack Exchange got a wee upgrade today: Find out why (and read to the end to find out how to get your own StackExchange sticker) at the Stack Overflow Blog . Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you...
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Readers have asked for years for electronic versions of my books, and I’m happy to say that electronic versions are now available for all of my Microsoft Press books. Software Estimation from Amazon.com in paperback or Kindle formats or from O'Reilly in various other Ebook formats (including...
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One day, you’ll be telling your grandchildren about getting a programming job, version 1.0. You would send a “resume” to a “recruiter.” It included all kinds of silly information required by the esoteric resume ritual (foreign languages spoken, whether...
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"We want our employees to be more innovative." Where have you heard that one before? Why are more and more employers wanting their staff to become innovative? Have our brains been stuck in the day-to-day muck for too long? Do we just need to innovate ourselves into greatness? I don't think...
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There’s a surprising amount of misinformation out there about whether software companies own the work that a programmer does in their spare time. From my answer to the question on answers.onstartups.com: Being an employee of a high tech company whose...
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