- James Shore: Successful Software – "Technical debt sucks, and it's a particularly common problem for the teams I work with. Technical debt affects everything they do. It disrupts plans, kills productivity, and creates defects. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but strangely, these teams put very little effort into paying off the debt. (That's probably why they got into this mess in the first place.)"
- Lab Safety, Grainger combining supply lines — GazetteXtra – "In an effort to prop up an underperforming Lab Safety Supply, company officials said Wednesday they will combine the business with another that operates warehouses across the country."
- InfoQ: Agile Usability – "Jakob Nielsen, usability guru and author of Usability Engineering, raises the concern that Agile methods are a threat to traditional approaches to designing usability. He says that Agile’s greatest threat to usability is that “it's a method proposed by programmers and mainly addresses the implementation side of system development”. Alistair Cockburn counters that this claim just isn’t true"
- InfoQ: The Generic SOA Failure Letter – "There have been quite a few articles recently on the subject of whether or not SOA should be considered a failure. Gartner analysts have entered the debate with a mock letter supposedly written by Project Manager, EA Artchitect or Lead Developer "To the CIO, CEO, CFO, CTO and shareholders", indicating why the writer admits that SOA is certainly a failure"
- The 7 Deadly Linux Commands – "If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system. To avoid this dangerous scenario from happening, I have here a list of deadly Linux commands that you should avoid."
- The Decline and Fall of Agile – "Scrum is undeniably the winner of the agile method wars. Thanks to the Scrum Alliance's vast (and lucrative) network of Certified Scrum Trainers and Certified ScrumMaster courses, when people say "Agile," they usually mean Scrum. So when "Agile" fails, it's generally Scrum that's failing. And Scrum is incomplete, purposefully so."
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