14 Articles match "Products","Statistics"

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• SOS: finding the method bound to an EventHandler with WinDbg.
  
  a transient object - it goes away at the end of the request - in production code, I Statistics: MT Count TotalSize Class Name 7b4ecd7c Statistics: MT Count TotalSize Class Name 0548cbd4 I was preparing a sample memory leak application for an Advanced C# class at Microsoft this past week and debugging through it with SOS.DLL ("Son of Strike"). My prepared application was an ASP.NET application that would leak memory by holding references to the page objects after they had completed their work.
  Mark's Blog of Random Thoughts - Friday, September 1, 2006
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• Productivity & IT - US trumps Europe
  
  The full report is available from the Office of National Statistics for free , and it has been reported in the FT (10 October 2005) – I’m sure it has been reported elsewhere too. The report is interesting because it looked at the difference in productivity growth between Europe and the USA in the last ten years. It appears that the USA is increasing productivity faster than Europe. I’m in the USA this week – part business part pleasure – so its a good time to think about some of the differences between the US and Europe and the UK specifically. On this occasion I’m
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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• Burn-down charts: The Good, Bad, advice and alternatives
  
  Burn-down charts were popularised by Scrum where there are, strictly speaking, two types of burn-down chart: the product burn-down chart and the sprint burn-down chart. My bigger issue lies with the Product Backlog burn-down chart. When the thing under development is a Product or a Programme development work may continue for a long time, perhaps ever. I’ve never completely accepted burn-down charts. I know they are a staple of Agile development and I’ve even used them myself but I’ve never been completely happy with them.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, March 29, 2009
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• 'Wired for Innovation' and the Trouble with business value
  
  In fact, if you have read anything by Brynjolfsson before there is a good chance it was his work on the “productivity paradox.” The authors know about measuring IT and have some fascinating statistics. Firstly the book resolves the “productivity gap”. I stopped reviewing books in this blog a while ago but, having said a few words about Domain Driven Design Using Naked Objects last time I want to say a few words about another book I’ve just finished reading: Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy . For anyone who is concerned with
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, January 14, 2010
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• Kanban: efficient or predictable, you decide
  
  In summary queuing theory explains why in any production system you can have predictable deliveries up to 76% of utilisation. As I understand it teams then apply statistical methods and observation to calculate the flow through the system. I have written a little about the Kanban method of software development in the past. And thanks to the comments from Karl and Wayne, plus a few on the side conversations with other people I have a better understanding of what is going on. (Although
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, June 1, 2008
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• Thoughts after Jeff Sutherland at ACCU London
  
  Data from Yahoo shows that teams adopting Scrum on their own show a 35% productivity improvement. For those who want it the original source of this statistic is "Rolling Out Agile at a Large Enterprise" by Gabrielle Benefield at the Hawaii International Conference on Software System, 2008.) • Not only does Jeff endorse the addition of XP technical practices (TDD, refactoring, pair-programming, etc.) Jeff Sutherland was back in London last week and was good enough to give a talk to ACCU London . As one of the organisers of the ACCU London events I feel I’m justified in giving
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, May 23, 2009
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• IT: Better to be effective or aligned?
  
  Like the Rettig piece they are concerned with internal IT projects rather than products for sale (my main area of interest and experience.) From this survey they are able to divide companies into four categories - a nice 2x2 matrix based on whether a company has effective (or ineffective) IT and whether the IT is aligned with business strategy (or pursuing its own.) Statistically, well oiled IT companies are similar to the growth companies but less so, they have significantly lower sales growth but spend even less on IT. In my last blog entry promised to discuss a second piece from the MIT Sloan Review .
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, December 1, 2007
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