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Category Archives: Business
Congratulations to Graeme & Guillaume
Post by Ben Edwards
Oct
11
2007
G2One is a new company founded by Grails lead Graeme Rocher, Groovy lead Guillaume LaForge, and Alex Tkachman of IntelliJ IDEA. Here is Graeme’s post about it. Refactr wishes them good luck but they won’t need it with that team … Continue reading
Startup Pitfall #1: Top-Heaviness
Post by Ben Edwards
Sep
25
2007
On some level it seems to make sense, when building your startup staff, to want your “generals” in place before you start drafting your soldiers. That way plans can be made, hierarchies established, and processes put in place. But, it … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged just do it, meetings, overhead, people, simplification, Small Teams, starups, teams
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Pitching Agile to senior management
Post by Ben Edwards
May
8
2007
With many parallells to the Selling Agile to the Enterprise presentation Ross and I gave at last month’s MinneBar (un)conference, Scott Ambler, goes a bit further by providing specific language (like diminishing returns* or, my favorite, opportunity cost**) to use … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged agile dangers, communication, embracing change, transparency
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Selling Agile to the Enterprise.
Post by Ben Edwards
Apr
27
2007
I wrote a longish follow-up to MinneBar over at Alt Text but wanted to make mention here of the presentation that Ross Niemi of Thoughtworks and I gave this year, titled: You can do that? Selling agile to the enterprise. … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged community, grails, groovy, Local, minnebar, Rails, Refactr, scaling agile
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Adobe switched to agile methods develop their flagship CS3 product
Post by Ben Edwards
Mar
12
2007
Having spent a good part of the past several months talking to companies about agile methods and what it means to be agile, we have found people to be very receptive to the benefits of working in ways designed to … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged lean, scaling agile, software development model
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You call that Agile?
Post by Ben Edwards
Jan
29
2007
Many companies are throwing around the term agile when defining who they are and what they can offer but, as the Agile In Action blog points out, many may not be practicing what they preach. In this post I have … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged overhead, people, Scrum, simplification, Small Teams
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Bootstrapping is agile (or how we decided to let go of our fears, start a business, and make meaning in our community)
Post by Ben Edwards
Jan
10
2007
Part of the reason it has been a bit quiet around here is that we are busy taking the advice of Guy Kawasaki and others and have started a company.* Refactr is just a weblog no more. Now we are … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged entrepreneurism, Guy Kawasaki, just do it, refactr.com, Small Teams
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Size does matter
Post by Ben Edwards
Dec
29
2006
Seth Godin is a bit nonsensical in some of his arguments for why small companies can compete against and even outperform larger ones (i.e. he cites the growth %’s of small companies compared to larger ones as evidence). Even though … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business
Tagged entrepreneurism, lean, Seth Godin, Small Teams
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Analogy watch: The enterprise as a supertanker
Post by Ben Edwards
Dec
28
2006
Kerry Buckley wrote a great post that made me laugh and think. When people talk about large organisations making major changes to their core processes or values, sooner or later someone will compare the process to steering a supertanker – … Continue reading
Cargo Cult Programmers
Post by Scott Vlaminck
Dec
14
2006
In Cargo Cult Network Administration, Esther Schindler in her weblog for CIO Magazine discusses an interesting problem that is similar to that of hiring and Interviewing Programmers. This is by no means a new idea, but it did get me … Continue reading
