[talk] Community Anti-Patterns

Excellent talk by Dave Neary

developing software in the open (source environment)

Session Summary:

It may be hard to identify the magic that goes into a successful free software community project, but it is easy to identify patterns in unsuccessful community-building efforts. I present a humorous look at the most common and egregious anti-patterns [...]

“We live in this bubble of fake bullshit”

Jesse Schell about the future of games… and why Facebook is a game 28 minutes and 18 seconds of ingenuity

[via Nerdcore]

[Vid] You know SCRUM? Think again...

I meet a lot of people who think they know something about SCRUM, and why SCRUM doesn’t work. And if I ask “Why do you think that?”… I get funny answers like:

“we tried it, we had our daily scrum… every other Friday. ” “there is never enough time in the timebox.” “What do you [...]

“Design by Demut”, Dr. Daniel Mölle

Auszug aus der ix 090909:

“[...] Die spannende Welt der Enwicklungsprozesse enthält mit dem bekannten Wasserfallmodell eines der skurilsten Mißverständnisse der Softwaretechnik überhaupt: Obwohl es in der Literatur ursprünglich als Negativ-Beispiel aufgeführt und schon bei seiner ersten formalisierten Beschreibung als unbrauchbar herausgestellt wurde [5], ist es in Tausenden von Projekten zum Einsatz gekommenund selbst Jahrzehnte [...]

Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other

Robots re-program themselves to lie to other robots… read the full article at PopSci

PopSci [via Nerdcore]

Book: Joel On Software

[ln amazon]978-1590593899[text]Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to … or Ill-Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity[/text][/ln]

If you’re a software engineer: buy this book (and read it) … and learn about Scrum

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