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Comment on Observations on Scrum, Timesheets and Estimation by whibr01

whibr01 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:24:07 +0000

What may also be effective is removing the “other” as an item to capture time against, and identify what the “other” is – there may be more than 1 person using this same “other” category, and will help analyse where the effort is being spent.
(Just been through this ourselves – I wrote a Silverlight front end to track [I wanted to learn Silverlight, so this provided good motivation to build something "out of hours"], and developers dont moan about capturing timesheets, because the Silverlight UI makes it “pleasureable” to use and had quick lookups to the projects / tasks / codes etc on our Unix product management system (so existing reports etc still work). But definately worth the time and effort to do properly, and developers also have buy in, because it helps them when we need to deliver an estimate on a task, because we can always say to sales and product team it took x hours the last 2 tasks like this – vs trying to make a point against a “thumb suck” have it done by date. Good times

Comment on Coding Tests in Technical Interviews by Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:45:35 +0000

When I interview I look at the quality of the code and ask myself: Can I work with code or is it going to drive me nuts? As some point you may have to work in that person’s code. You don’t want to drive yourself nuts. During the interview you should get a feel for whether that is their true style or if it is just them trying to impress. This is such a subjective task and it is not really fare for the candidate but in the end you are looking for a fit.

Comment on Using an i-mate JasJar as a USB modem. by nii

nii — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:56:46 +0000

the download link is dead please fix

Comment on Performance Tuning in Visual Studio Team System by Prashant

Prashant — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:01:26 +0000

i want to know how to make performance changes in VC++ code.

Comment on Ahead: A time of optimism. by Darren

Darren — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:14:53 +0000

So true. I think what we’ve been through also highlights that a downturn is not an excuse to take the foot off of the pedal when it comes to creativity and innovation. Because when you come through the other side of a downturn, you need to have innovation to show.

As the saying goes:

“You reap what you sow”

If you haven’t “planted” in the Winter of the downturn, then you will not reap any harvest in the Summer of the recovery.

Comment on My log cabin fantasy. by Fred

Fred — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:57:52 +0000

If you’re looking for snow you should check out Northern Maine! Not only do we have snow, but we auction off a log cabin every year around Thanksgiving.

Comment on Observations on Scrum, Timesheets and Estimation by silky

silky — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:45:20 +0000

I think you’re wrong (this will not surprise you).

Either the “other stuff” is thinking and planning, and hence timesheetable, or it’s research (blogs, stackoverflow, other such things), and hence provides longterm value to the developer and your company, but not neccessarily (not metrically) the company you’re working at.

With these hours, (research) you just need to explain for what they are: critical to the development of smart programmers and hence smart solutions.

With the other hours (single developer thought-planning) then it’s also easy to explain.

Comment on Converting people to Windows 7 one MacBook at a time. by silky

silky — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:53:32 +0000

The problem being, you need a macbook to develop for the iphone (at least, it’s significantly easier).

Comment on Windows Image Acquisition via Silverlight by Jorge Solano

Jorge Solano — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:34:54 +0000

Hi, nice article I googling for this, just solution mark me this error,The imported project c:\ProgramFiles\MSBuild\CSharp.targets was not foud. confirm the path in the declaration is correct.

Comment on Tips for Travelling with Children by Adam Green

Adam Green — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:20:25 +0000

Great article & advice. We find it very tiring to travel with kids, especially when you need to wait at the airport with them and the plane is delayed. It's been a bit easier since we bought Trunki suitcases for our two little ones - kids on them (or can be towed) and entertain themselves. It's definitely a must for parents with kids aged 3-6. You can check Trunki products for kids here. If it wasn't for that magical suitcase our waiting times at airports could be a real nightmare, especially when planes are delayed, so often these days!!!!