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An agile project that is converting points into real units of time is potentially dysfunctional because it’s a sign that a) the advantages of the points/velocity system aren’t being fully utilized or b) the business team is having too much influence on the creation of estimates, or possibly worse. It’s possible that things are still okay, but the presumption is that this estimation style does not encourage good agile practice. via railsrx.wordpress.com Noel's post hits on a lot of good points. Somewhere in me...
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Searching the Command History One of the greatest features of the bash shell is command history, which makes it easy to navigate through past commands by navigating up and down through your history with the up and down arrow keys. This is fine if the command you want to repeat is within the last 10–20 commands you executed, but it becomes tedious when the command is 75–100 commands back in your history. To speed things up, you can search interactively through your command history by pressing Ctrl-R. After doing...
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This tendency to look for individual goats – and heroes – isn’t just a problem that permeates the world of sports. It is reflected in many misguided ideologies and management practices, which focus excessive energy on hiring stars and weeding-out mediocre and poor performers, and insufficient energy on building a great system that enables most competent people to succeed. Sure, people matter a lot, but as my colleague Jeff Pfeffer puts it, some systems are so badly designed that when smart people with a great track...
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