I'm trying to think of productive meetings

1. Cigarette break. You find out what is really going on in the company and will probably meet people from both ends...

Andy Warren (3/21/2016)

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Dean/David. It's fair to say not all meetings are effective. On a good day that's a teaching opportunity, on a bad day it's just something to be endured....

If you are going to insist on punctuality of start then I'm going to insist on punctuality of the end, a clear objective to the meeting and an agenda. ...

Oh the joy of a receiving a notification that an issue has been closed only to find that it was tested in a parallel universe where bugs don't exist, users...

Understanding is different to knowing. As the old saying goes, a child doesn't understand a hammer.

I thought owning a tablet would allow me to read and research far more....

Eric M Russell (3/14/2016)

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I use the term "BlackOps deployment" referring to those scenarios where IT performs an undocumented operation in production without going through he offical change control process. Sometimes...

If it is within your power then design stuff to be automated.

I've just spent months trying to get a system that will be run by a very small team to...

Whether they are targeting Oracle or MySQL they are targeting Oracle.

Where's the growth for SQL Server going to come from if you stick with Windows only?

My experience with MySQL suggests...

One of the key things for an open-source product is to have a strong gatekeeper.

Linus Thorvald fulfilled the role fantastically for Linux, Shay Banmon did the same for Elastic Search.

Provided...

Gary Varga (3/10/2016)

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The development teams often want to selectively choose which pieces they want to apply as both teams and individuals.

The management teams often want to selectively choose when to...

I still haven't found a use for Yammer but it seems to keep the HR department amused.

Can you integrate your development tools with Skype for business/lync?

The messages we had flowing around were when someone was working on a code branch, submitting or updating stories to Jira,...

A 3rd party introduced Flowdoc to us which follows a similar principal

We found that it speeded up communication dramatically and cut down on email.

We didn't have a timezone challenge so...

Way back in the 1990s I worked with a guy who used to say that the more expensive the software the more the bugs. In general I have found...

Humans are good at spotting patterns even when there isn't one.

An algorithm will be applied consistently and with out bias or prejudice.

Can you fool them if you understand...