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Quote from EC: “I haven’t cleaned out my hydrogen foil.”

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Ummmm…OK. I’m not sure that answered my question to my seven year old son, which was, “Do you have a lunch bag for me to put your lunch in?” I double checked that I heard him correctly. He said, “Yeah, I haven’t cleaned out my hydrogen foil yet.” I wish his teacher well this year.

Quote from EC: “Is the lawn dork coming to our house tonight?”

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

EC asked this question in the car last night after hearing me tell my wife about the “Lawn Ranger” who lives close by. Even better than EC’s question was his mom’s reply, “No, that would be your dad.” I feel loved.

Oxymoron: Enterprise Agile Project Management Software

Monday, August 18th, 2008

My favorite agile software development topic of them all — tools. More specifically, agile project management tools. If you’re old school, you bust out some index cards, some butcher paper, some writing utensils, and you get to work. If you’re trying to use one of the simplest of agile project management software tools (that [...]

Mr. Gates, Mr. Ballmer…Thank You & Congrats on Vista!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

There’s at least a couple of hours of my life I’ll never get back thanks to Microsoft Vista and everything that is wrong with the world of Windows. I was helping my father-in-law setup his new laptop (running the ever so awesome Microsoft Vista)  and wireless router — remotely. I wouldn’t wish this kind of [...]

Death of a User Story

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

In my last post I wrote about user stories and how it’s easy to write a user story and forget to include the value statement.  Now that we’re all writing user stories with value statements, I thought it would be interesting to look at another phenomenon I’ve seen far too often when it comes to [...]

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