Fri, 30 July 2010
We are pleased to release this recording of Linda Rising's talk on Deception and Estimation. This is a one-hour talk, and is a good talk about how we deceive ourselves in a number of ways in life in general, and of course in the estimation process. From the abstract: "Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception. It seems we are overly optimistic, and, in fact, we wouldn’t have survived without this trait. With this built-in bias as a starting point, it’s almost impossible for us to estimate accurately. That doesn’t mean all is lost. We must simply accept that our estimates are best guesses and continually re-evaluate as we go, which is, of course, the agile approach to managing change. Linda Rising has been part of many plan-driven development projects where sincere, honest people with integrity wanted to make the best estimates possible and used many “scientific” approaches to make it happen – all for naught. Re-estimation was regarded as an admission of failure to do the best up-front estimate and resulted in a lot of overhead and meetings to try to “get it right.” Offering examples from ordinary life – especially from the way people eat and drink – Linda demonstrates how hard it is for us to see our poor estimating skills and helps work with the self-deception that is hardwired in all of us." Thanks to Linda Rising for speaking at ETE 2010 and letting us publish her talk.
Direct download: ETE-2010-9-LindaRising-DeceptionAndEstimation.mp3
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Thu, 29 July 2010
In the DevNews today...
Sponsor Moment: We are sponsored / supported by our employer, Chariot Solutions, a leader in development and integration services in areas such as Java, Spring, Flex and Ruby on Rails. Visit chariotsolutions.com/education to see our online training calendar. We're hosting courses in Spring and Maven this fall. Check us out today. Podcast Disclosures: We are partners with SpringSource, SonaType and Engine Yard, all of whom which may have been mentioned either directly or indirectly in this podcast. Ken & Eric |
Wed, 14 July 2010
Amongst our weaponry...
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Thu, 1 July 2010
Chariot Developer News Episode #19Hosts: Ken Rimple and Eric SnyderThe watchword this week is Release... Many releases upcoming or out, including FireFox 4 beta/preview 1, Tomcat 7 beta 1, and the upcoming Passenger 3 and GMail with HTML 5. Links are not being loaded to delicious yet, so here they are in their glory!
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