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My goals for standup are: actually communicate get remote folks more familiar with each other (make Chicago and Berlin friends ;)) provide a forum so that I can act less as a clearinghouse/sole gate for communicating with remote folks (though I realize this is much of my job and will continue to be a big
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So, a “stand-up” meeting is a communication ritual from Extreme Programming (XP). The developers were sick of long, boring meetings wasting all their time, so someone came up with the idea of ritualizing a quick and productive status meeting. Stand-up has to be short because no one is allowed to sit down. I believe in
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My nephew seems to be enjoying the robot I knitted for him….
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Last Thursday I had breakfast with a local usability guru. We caught up a bit on what each other have been doing, and he said, to my astonishment, the above line. I suppose I’m astonished because I feel like I’ve been in a kind of exploration free-fall for the last two years. I actually stopped,
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Four months ago (March, 2006), I signed on to be Director of Operations at a small web company. Tonight, I had dinner with a friend and former colleague. We’re both project managers and we both left an established XP shop in the beginning of this year. We compared notes on what we have tried in