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| The Latest from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | People or the system? An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review a few years back suggested that when “star players” move to a new team they don’t necessarily, or even normally, keep their “star player” performance. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature?” George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Links! - 2 conferences, 1 week This presentation was based on an article I wrote for InfoQ last year My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful. I’ve been to two conferences this week! The first was Agile Dev Practices in Potsdam, outside of Berlin. At I presented my Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (www.dialoguesheets.com) , well I say presented, it was 10 minutes of introduction, 60 minutes of attendees doing Dialogue Sheets and 20 minutes wrap up. Anyone who has attended one of my Dialogue Sheet sessions will recognise the format. Which also means there aren’t a lot of slides for download. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 8, 2013 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever You read Carr’s article, you agreed with it, you commoditised your IT. Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. The argument was, post dot-com-boom, that IT was now a commodity, companies didn’t need to spend big bucks on it because they could buy just about anything they wanted off-the-shelf. At the time my response was, “Is IT worth it?” I, unsurprisingly said “Yes it is” and then looked at Carr’s example of American Hospital Supply. It was a strategy decision. Anyway, 10 years on. Thats flights. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 | | The Best from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | Xanpan If a team cannot resolve an impediment themselves then the leader or manager steps in, in effect it is the start of an escalation There are three version of Xanpan: Evolutionary, Incremental and Iterative - these build on the ideas in my Agile Spectrum article. Iterative is the most compatible with existing corporate culture and project management methods - salami slice requirements; Evolutionary is the extreme - goal directed working Xanpan adopts the three planning layers described in my Three Plans for Agile article and encourages Goal Driven Projects. Therefore. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 21, 2011 Change models: Shook, Schein, Dreyfus and Constructivism The other article which was good in the latest MIT Sloan Management Review was John Shook’s piece on change. Continuing on from my opening comments in the last entry, “Why forecasts fail: simple ones are better ”. His change model complements my own ideas well. Shook’s model is shown below. He sees change starting with specific practices, e.g. just-in-time inventory, and as teams improve their practices and deepen their understanding they move to more thinking for themselves. ve written before about my Agile triangle (or maybe pyramid is a better term). And so on. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, March 21, 2010 Humans can't estimate tasks ve written my findings down in full, albeit somewhat roughly, together with a full list of the articles I examined in depth. As I said in my last blog entry I’ve been looking at some of the academic research on task time estimation. Long long ago, well 1979, two researchers, Kahneman and Tversky described “The Planning Fallacy.” The Planning Fallacy is now well established in academic literature and there is even a Planning Fallacy wikipedia page. All the other literature I looked at takes this fallacy as a starting point. Second, it seems the planning fallacy holds retrospectively. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, March 17, 2011 | - 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever
You read Carr’s article, you agreed with it, you commoditised your IT. Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. The argument was, post dot-com-boom, that IT was now a commodity, companies didn’t need to spend big bucks on it because they could buy just about anything they wanted off-the-shelf. At the time my response was, “Is IT worth it?” I, unsurprisingly said “Yes it is” and then looked at Carr’s example of American Hospital Supply. It was a strategy decision. Anyway, 10 years on. Thats flights. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 - IT: Better to be effective or aligned?
Let me give yo a run down of the article and then draw some conclusions of my own. The article is based on the authors’ experience and a large(ish) survey. You can argue with the underpinnings of the article but I’m quite happy to give it credibility. IT can make itself more effective but to become aligned the business needs to understand and get involved with IT - back to the point I was making about the Rettig article and last year about companies that understand IT. On the whole I find this article good news, it helps me chart a cause for improvement. Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, December 1, 2007 - People or the system?
An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review a few years back suggested that when “star players” move to a new team they don’t necessarily, or even normally, keep their “star player” performance. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature?” George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - Light Touch Agile Coaching in the Cornish Software Mines
In the next few months I hope more of this work will come into the public domain as articles and case studies. don’t, and thats worth a full article in its own right but not today. I’m off to Cornwall again next week for my monthly visit. Anyone who follows me on Twitter (allankellynet) may have noticed that every few weeks I put out a few tweets along the lines of “On my way to the Cornish Software Mines again”. They may not actually dig source code out of the ground in Cornwall but there are some very active software companies there. More to follow soon.) Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - Links! - 2 conferences, 1 week
This presentation was based on an article I wrote for InfoQ last year My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful. I’ve been to two conferences this week! The first was Agile Dev Practices in Potsdam, outside of Berlin. At I presented my Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (www.dialoguesheets.com) , well I say presented, it was 10 minutes of introduction, 60 minutes of attendees doing Dialogue Sheets and 20 minutes wrap up. Anyone who has attended one of my Dialogue Sheet sessions will recognise the format. Which also means there aren’t a lot of slides for download. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 8, 2013 - Kelly's Law - concluding principles (3 of 3)
Preface : this is the third of three articles on the subject of “Principles - in Software Development” and Agile Software Development specifically. The previous pieces are: Software Principles 1 of 3 and (Agile) Software Principles 2 of 3 Many years ago, so many I’ve actually lost track, but I think I can trace some of these back to ACCU Overload in 2002, I penned my own rules and law of software development. In writing the principles blog entries I though it would be worth revisiting them and seeing if they still held. still think this law holds. and I’d be prepared to concede. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, July 2, 2012 - Story points considered harmful? 1 of 4 - Journey's start
So please forgive me, this is going to take a few, possibly long blog articles to go through. A few months ago Vasco Duarte , with a little help from Joseph Pelrine started a discussion entitled “ Story Points considered harmful.” They, or at least Vasco, has given this as a conference keynote and has blogged about it. Warning: this is the first of 4 blog entires, its quite a long post. Plus I think there are two appendix blog entries to follow up.) also thought “But I don’t think they are right”. m also taking time to go over Vasco and Joseph’s arguments. By “we” I mean humans. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 16, 2012 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Optimistic concurrency in MongoDB using.NET and C# 'This article demonstrates a technique and supporting library for adding optimistic concurrency control to NoSQL databases and MongoDB in particular. At the end of this article is a simple C# class (data context) which has save and delete methods which internally are safe via optimistic concurrency control. Quickly, what is optimistic concurrency control? Ideally, all databases that allow concurrent access or disconnected access need to implement some form of concurrency control. This usually comes in two flavors: Pessimistic concurrency control. Optimistic concurrency control. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 8, 2013 People or the system? An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review a few years back suggested that when “star players” move to a new team they don’t necessarily, or even normally, keep their “star player” performance. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature?” George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Links! - 2 conferences, 1 week This presentation was based on an article I wrote for InfoQ last year My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful. I’ve been to two conferences this week! The first was Agile Dev Practices in Potsdam, outside of Berlin. At I presented my Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (www.dialoguesheets.com) , well I say presented, it was 10 minutes of introduction, 60 minutes of attendees doing Dialogue Sheets and 20 minutes wrap up. Anyone who has attended one of my Dialogue Sheet sessions will recognise the format. Which also means there aren’t a lot of slides for download. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 8, 2013 | -
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This article is a follow up one I wrote last week entitled “The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB – Oh My!”. In that article I introduced the NoSQL movement, MongoDB, and showed you how to program against it in.NET … Continue reading → NoSQL Articles Visual Studio Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Thursday, April 29, 2010 - Article: 10 Features in.NET 4.0 that made Me Smile
I recently wrote another article for DevelopMentor 's Developments newsletter (not subscribed yet? Speaking of that XAML stuff, if you write WPF or Silverlight code and don’t know MVVM, stop reading this article and tp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx" target="_blank">learn about it here. Also have a look at my article from last month Six Things That’ll Surprise You About.NET 4.0. Tags: Articles DevelopMentor see top-right of this page ). This one is entitled. 10 Features in.NET 4.0 that made Me Smile. Cheers, Michael. 10 Features in.NET 4.0 Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2
In this article I'm going to give you a simple, step-by-step overview of how to create a Windows 2008 server image in Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure. Tags: Articles Tools Now I must admit I'd rather have found a good tutorial on The Internets or even in a book. Feel free to send me any I missed. My experience is they are either dated or about Linux and so on. First, briefly why does one care about EC2? That's a great reason and Microsoft and Google have interesting plays there too. Personally I just want a simpler way to create virtual machines. Here we go. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown
This article is a follow up one I wrote last week entitled “The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!”. In that article I introduced the NoSQL movement, MongoDB, and showed you how to program against it in.NET using LINQ and NoRM. For ease-of-use, you’ll have to want to read the original article. This article is about the performance argument for MongoDB over SQL Server (or MySql or Oracle). In the first article, I threw out a potentially controversial graph showing MongoDB performing 100 *times* better than SQL Server for inserts. Those were. Your Turn. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Thursday, April 29, 2010 - Article: Azure Storage
I recently wrote an article for DevelopMentor's Developments newsletter entitled Azure Storage. Listen to this article as a podcast: Azure-Storage-Article-Kennedy.mp3 ]. In this article, we will cover just the basics of the three storage services of Windows Azure. Read it at the DevelopMentor website here: [link]. I've republished here for my readers. Enjoy! Developments: Azure Storage. by Michael Kennedy. October 27th 2008, Los Angeles CA - It's 9 AM and Microsoft is hosting PDC (their most forward looking developer conference). Enter Azure Storage. Listing 3. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Wednesday, April 8, 2009 %>
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