As the authors of the Agile Manifesto said, “We are uncovering better ways…by doing it and helping others do it.” We’ve individually been practicing, writing about, and coaching others on user story s
To make learning more fun and interesting , here’s a list of important computer science theories and concepts explained with analogies and minimal technical terms. It’s like an ultra-fast-track comput
It has been years since Microsoft upstaged an Apple Keynote (such things usually run in the opposite direction), but that is exactly what happened yesterday with the former’s $26.2 billion purchase of
Gojko Adzic Gojko Adzic Home Workshops Books Articles Talks About Subscribe Hi, I'm Gojko, and I help ambitious teams align software delivery with business goals, with the help of Impact Mapping and S
It’s tempting to think of marriage as old-fashioned. Why not just live with someone and be done with it? What need for a public ceremony? Why the weird traditions that people normally keep away from:
Apple, like practically every mega-corporation, wants to know as much as possible about its customers. But it's also marketed itself as Silicon Valley's privacy champion, one that---unlike so many of
H umans have a drive to eat. We have a drive to drink. We have a drive to reproduce. Curiosity is no different, says George Loewenstein, a professor of
I remember AIDS. I’m older than you probably think I am, and I remember what AIDS in America meant in the eighties, when William F. Buckley suggested all “carriers” be tattooed, and the Wizard of Id g
Gray Matter By ADAM FRANK LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our
What is NoSQL? NoSQL provides the new data management technologies designed to meet the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of data. It can store and retrieve data that is modeled in means other
‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually
By far the best moment of Recode's annual Code Conference was when Elon Musk took the stage and explained that though we think we're flesh-and-blood participants in a physical world, we are almost cer
Wednesday, 2 September 2015. In whatever way one got news – Facebook, email, Twitter, newspaper or traditional broadcast bulletin – it was there. An indelible image that made millions stop and look in
Ameet Ranadive Jun 4, 2016 · 6 min read I had a discussion with a group of product managers recently about differentiation and product strategy. We were reviewing my previous post, “ How to Pitch Your
Last year Americans drove a record 3.15 trillion miles, many of them on en route to national parks, entertainment meccas and other tourist attractions. Credit... Zackary Canepari for The New York Time
In the product world we often like to talk about something called product market fit (PMF). Product market fit usually stands at the very beginning and is considered the most important thing when buil
“Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others… re-examine all you have been told
On Icons Icons save space. Icons look crisp. Icons give quick answers to hard questions: How do we make it nicer? How can we brand it? How do we make it more fun? We ♥ icons. Until they start messing
Which is which? What is that? In the latest episode, we sort out the relative pronouns, with reference to E. B. White, Roger Angell, and Reeves Wiedeman. More Comma Queen To whom (or who? ) it may con
Flailing in the swell of bestselling diet books, infomercials for cleanses, and secret tips in glossy magazines, is the credibility of nutrition science. Watching thoroughly-credentialed medical exper
In a letter written in 1784 to his friend Benjamin Vaughan, Ben Franklin has a very interesting cogitation on the aggregate effect of the pursuit of luxuries beyond our needs. Franklin displays a mast
Ulysses lets you export your writings to a host of standard formats with just a few clicks. Thereby, the so-called styles are used to define the look of the final document. Ulysses ships with a couple
Ulysses lets you export your texts to beautiful PDF or DOCX documents, fully formatted. With different styles available, you can quickly achieve a suitable layout for your writings. In the following,
I have a new word for you. Cluey. Let me explain. My father once told me a mundane little anecdote from his youth. It involved his father—my late grandfather—and one of the happiest and most loving pe
What is your morning routine? I generally wake up at 6:00am and immediately drink a tall glass of water. I find this helps get my metabolism going and wakes me up. From there I’ll check email on my ph
Heddy Stern Apr 11, 2016 · 4 min read Problem: Before joining Pivotal Labs , I didn’t know what small, incremental, feature-based user stories looked like. I was writing 15-page requirement docs or wo
An Essay on the Apparent Perks and Perils of Being Rich… and a Theory About the Ideal Amount of Money to Earn According to one survey, the most common answer people give when asked what would most imp
Why do billionaires, CEOs, and other titans of industry work so hard? Why do they maintain such relentless professional ambition? Look up and down the Forbes 400 list and you’ll find hedge fund manage
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change. Some of us will seek it out; for others it will fe
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