For nearly four years Dan and I have shared our experiences and ideas about agile development and DevOps. We would like to ask you, our dear readers, how we could help you to become even more agile and have more fun doing your job. Please help us to understand your needs better by taking our [...]
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Sad but true – it’s pretty rare for managers to hire the right people. If there are too many candidates, effective filtering is critical. Too few candidates, and it’s hard to get applications at all, much less the right ones. I want to describe the top five errors you make when trying to hire the [...]
Desktop application development is traditionally done in waterfall development mode. Specifications and requirements are gathered over a period of months before being unleashed upon a “pool” of developers for implementation. Development times run into thousands of man days after which a “beta” product is released to the QA team (or perhaps some very brave customers). [...]
Consider the following: People are complicated and companies are run by a lot of people. A relationship between two people is complicated. Relationships between companies? Well, you see where I’m going. Outsource a software development project requiring 10 developers, an on-site team of 3 managers and 4 developers, involving a total of 4 external companies. [...]
You know it within an hour of working with them. A special kind of sysadmin or developer that not only knows how to do their job, but really cares about doing it right. This is the person that makes you refactor that duplicate method or add that one last test. The kind of engineer that [...]
The cool thing about doing geeky things like this is the ability to share the howto with other folks who can actually get just as excited. Amazon’s announcement of a 12 month free usage tier, plus the fact that this blog doesn’t run on sugar plums and candy canes, put us in the short list [...]
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2010 was a great year here at Agile Web Development & Operations. Since 2008, we’ve written close to 200 posts (many not so good, but, luckily, there were also quite a few you liked). You guys left over 450 comments (You Rock!) and spammers tried to swamp us with over 22.000 comments (they Suck! and [...]
For nearly two years Dan and I have shared our experiences and ideas about agile development and system administration. With every post we hoped to be helpful, and maybe some of them even were… Now, as we approach 500 subscribers, we would like to ask you, our dear readers, how we could help you to [...]
It’s time to say “Thank you” to all of you, our loyal readers. Thanks for reading, commenting and subscribing to our posts for exactly one year now. That’s right, Agile Web Operations is now one year old. I can hardly put into words how great it is to have you with us! 103 posts and [...]
