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Practices & Discipline (27)

Abolish All Rules! (Be Scared and Safe)

It struck me several times that the flow of traffic at the Hofplein in Rotterdam, one of the busiest roundabouts in my city, is better wh...

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Getting a Wedgie on the Last Mile (guest post)

This is a guest post by Julian Simpson. Julian helps bridge the gap between software development and IT operations. He's spent the la...

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Agile (Wrongfully) Assumes Craftsmanship

I love driving my car. It’s a male thing, I suppose. It’s somewhere in my Y-chromosome. I embrace every opportunity I can find to hop...

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Where There’s People, There’s Problems

This article was first published as a guest post on Chris Spagnuolo's EdgeHopper. I re-publish it here for your convenience, and to k...

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Good Tools Are Not Agile, Not Customizable, but Adaptable

People are not the only resources in your project! There's a type of resource that is often neglected when we talk about agile, self-...

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Code Reviews and Sex Orgies

When people mention peer pressure (or social pressure) they often refer to teens being involved in drugs, alcohol, gambling, smoking, or ...

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Managing != Coaching

While pondering about management and coaching I recently realized that my mental model needed some realignment with reality. I came to un...

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I Don’t Feel Like Writing, Yet I Write

I must write.Though I’m not in the mood for writing.I’d rather read my Peter F. Hamilton book.But still, I write. Why? It is called s...

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How to Make People Behave: 6 Levels of Disciplinary Action

In 4 Top Posts on Discipline in Software Development I told you about some disciplinary problems I was facing and the articles that I fou...

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Team Members, Be Predictable!

In my earlier blog post I Follow My Rules, You Follow Yours I wrote that team members don't necessarily have to follow the same rules...

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4 Top Posts on Discipline in Software Development

Suppose you check out some new code from source control, and the exact number of new errors the compiler gives you is so large that the d...

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Why Should I Follow Your Rules? (The Subsidiarity Principle)

In a previous post (I Follow My Rules, You Follow Yours) I wrote about allowing people to follow different practices, which can be a good...

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