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On Being Wrong
It reminded me of a book I wanted to read, but I never got past the book review. The blog The Wrong Stuff has some excellent interviews about how people deal with errors or mistakes. Basically, most experts are no better at predicting the future than a drunken monkey. This quote reminds me of why I hate talking to smart people: “Most people tend to dismiss new information that doesn’t fit with what they already believe. Smart people are better at rationalizing and defending their opinions no matter how inane. That doesn’t mean they aren’t useful.
Handwaving - Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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How to improve a team's velocity?
So, invest in developer training, buy them books, send them on courses, bring in coaches, set up book study groups and other exchanges were developers can learn to do things better. Teams get to review work in progress and take corrective action more often. By way of wrapping up my velocity mini-series ( Two ways to fill and iteration , Filling an iteration too well , and Velocity Targeting and Velocity Inflation ) I’m going to end with some advice on how to improve a team’s velocity. Each little fix improve your productivity (velocity) a little bit. But back to software.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 1, 2010
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A3 reports: templates and observations
If you want to know more about A3 reports John Shook’s book “Managing to Learn” is good, although you have to order it from the Lean Enterprise Institute , its not at your local online bookshop. For a shorter version check out Shook’s article in the MIT Sloan Management review, “Toyota’s Secret: The A3 report”. As I mentioned last time, I recently delivered a course on Lean software development in Oslo. One of the exercises I set people was to produce an A3 report. The term “counter measures” is preferred over solution because no “solution” is ever the end of the story.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 17, 2010
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  • Book review: Minimalism Beyond the "Nurnberg Funnel" and thoughts on documentation
    Still I think I may have read the wrong book, a better starting place for this subject would of been the authors first book on the subject The Nurnberg Funnel. Both books discuss the same concept, namely minimalism in technical documentation. However the newer book (Beyond) is not so much an introduction to the subject but a review of how the ideas had developed in 8 years. So I think the earlier book may have been a better starting position. Now, 9 years after the second book I assume things have moved on again. Anyway, get back to the book.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, February 22, 2007
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  • Book review: Software Ecosystems
    Software Ecosystem by Messerschmitt and Szyperski (2003) is a book that was recommended to me about a year ago, a book I bought about 9 months ago, and one I started reading about four months ago. The book is interesting, the book is useful, the book does offer some insights into the software industry, the business of software and how software effects our business. Yes I have learned things from this book. feel as though I should read this book, it talks about business, software and the business of software but it idn’t a gripping read.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, October 15, 2006
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  • Book review: The Box
    Fortunately its also given me time to finish off another book - The Box by Marc Levinson Yes this book was short-listed for the FT book of the year by that wasn't why I read it. would have read this book anyway because. I'd recommend this book for three reasons: its a good story, its an easy read and third its educational. A couple of days off work with a stinking cold has given me a lot of time lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. well, I've got a thing about ships and even containers. The Box is both a story and a business case study.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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  • Book review: IT Success!
    share a publishing house (John Wiley & Sons) and and editor with this book so you might consider my opinions biased. However I had no idea this book was being written and produced at about the same time as mine. The first I knew about this books’ existence was a mention in the FT. With that assumption in place the author spends most of the book considering the business side of software development and project management. The book is really concerned with in-house and bespoke software projects so don’t bother with reading it if you work on the ISV side of things.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, February 17, 2008
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  • Book review: Siemens Best Practises
    For once a review of a book I'm not recommending. In fact I found Knowledge Management Case Book: Siemens Best Practises quite disappointing. bought this book for two reasons. So I thought a book of case studies would shed some light on it. Unfortunately I was disappointed on all counts and I'm giving up on the book after only 3 or chapters. However no mention was made of patterns in this chapter or elsewhere in the book. think the book missed something very important. So I'm not recommending this book. Not what I hoped for at all.
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, February 3, 2007
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  • Book review: Weinberg on Writing
    write this blog, I occasionally contribute to ACCU journals – although I have contributed a lot more in the past – and I’m half way to writing a book. Recently, I’ve become aware of the need to improve my writing so I thought I’d so in the time honoured way: by reading a book. When someone recommended Weinberg on Writing I decided this was the book for me. While we’re on the subject of Weinberg’s books, a quick note to my friend who asked me earlier today “How much should I charge for my consultancy services?”
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, November 17, 2006
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  • Book review: The Search (Battelle)
    This is one of those books that got a lot of publicity last year, silly thing is, the anti-hype person inside of me tends to automatically avoid books that get a lot of hype. So, it wasn’t until one of my colleagues at work, Julian, suggested I read this book that I actually bought a copy, then it took me a couple of months to actually find time to read it. Now I have I’m glad I did and I need to say thank-you to Julian - perhaps in future I shouldn’t avoid books because they get a lot of hype. Although the book doesn’t specifically talk of Web 2.0
    Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, June 19, 2006
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