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  • 90% of the tweets I receive have a link to a web site someone "discovered". Am I really supposed to open them all#metatweet 1 week ago
  • Back from Develop2010. Did my talk today. Very well received by people attending. I was very pleased. Magic went very well. #develop2010 2 weeks ago
  • @maryforrest Even this statement of not hurting others to do good is "arbitrary". Right and wrong is culture dependent. #crossculture 2 weeks ago
  • Too many people now know I am doing magic to illustrate my topic tomorrow at my talk at 14.45 room 7. Can't give-up now... #develop2010 2 weeks ago
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Please sign here!

“Please sign here!” Every time I hear that sentence I am worried about what I am doing. And every time I am in the same situation: I have to sign to move forward but I am leaving part of my freedom away. This is true when you get a mortgage or a credit, when you sign [...]

Off-shore development: why can’t “they” get it?

What is culture and what does it mean to be a foreigner? Don’t worry; I will not give a detailed answer to these two questions; that would need 100s of pages to do so. These 2 questions, I had to ask them to myself when I married a foreigner and when I moved to live in [...]

“I’m going to kill you!”

John von Neumann, the “father” of computers as they are now, has said: There’s no point in being exact about something if you don’t even know what you’re talking about. I like that quote and I’ll tell you why.

I have delivered again and again courses about requirements management and requirements gathering. There is no surprise to [...]

Iteration size and the tap water glass

When I teach iterative approach in software development, I use to justify it with an analogy that I have borrowed from Kent Beck: managing software is like driving a car; you permanently need to adjust left and right if you don’t want to have an accident. That’s a fine analogy and it always worked for me. [...]