L'Extreme Programming joue sur l'enveloppe fonctionnelle pour adapter la charge et tenir les dates. Est-ce toujours accepté par le client ?

Dans ce type de situation, les auteurs d'XP estiment qu'il est possible de jouer sur quatre variables, mais que seule l'une d'entre elles peut être maniée sans effets secondaires pervers

Augmenter les coûts du projet en renforçant l'équipe.

On your deathbed will you wish you had worked longer hours or been a better parent?

"Do you sleep?" or "Do you have a family?" I can answer succinctly: "I don't, in shifts, and yes... I think."

"I slept on the couch or floor ... Because I was living on happy hour food, and the 2 beer cover charge, I was gaining weight like a pig. But I was having fun. ... Every night I would read [software manuals], no matter how late. ...

Do you have a dashboard? Do you know what’s going on in your business day-to-day, each hour?

How do you measure customer satisfaction?

What is the culture of your company?

Google Wave consiste en un lieu centralisé pour toutes vos communications électronique. Google Wave introduit de nouveaux termes pour exprimer des notions jusqu'ici peu utilisés dans les conversations électroniques.

Wave (vague)

Wavelet (vaguelette)

Entrepreneurs need to return to a spirit of ‘bootstrapping’

when men and women wore boots and boots had straps, we were exhorted to pull ourselves up by said bootstraps and achieve the near-impossible through hard work, tenacity and our own initiative.

Je me souviens d’un prof de marketing qui en début d’année nous avait expliqué que l’excuse « je n’ai pas le temps » ne devait plus faire parti de notre vocabulaire. « Nous avons toujours le temps, il faut simplement décider des priorités. Vous n’avez pas fait votre devoir ; ne me dites pas que c’est par manque de temps ; dites moi plutôt que ce n’était pas votre priorité ! »

Essays on Software Engineerin

a book on software project management by Fred Brooks

This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.

Slow Blogging is a rejection of immediacy

like the pixels that give your words form are precious and rare

a reversal of the disintegration into the one-liners

Consulter de nombreux sites apporte finalement très peu de connaissances. Je me force maintenant à résumer tous les documents lus en utilisant un schéma type brainstorming en mettant les concepts abordés et les liens entre eux. C'est un essai. et pour l'instant ça marche, je retiens les sites consultés et les informations apportées de manière durable et assez précise.

Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You’re well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware—our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it’s all in your head. In this book by Andy Hunt, you’ll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain’s architecture. You’ll learn new tricks and tips to learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn. You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware.

people that we weren’t just designers, we were thinkers

Take on a few brands, redesign a few pages or flows, explain in detail why you did it and why it’s better

R.BIRD primarily designs physical packaging for consumer products

We live in a world that is go-go-go 24×7x365

my computer slows to a crawl because of memory leaks or whatever. The only way I can get it to work faster again is to reboot.

When I first started to take 5 minutes, it seemed useless because my mind only raced with what to do