Monthly Archives: March 2011

The Truth about DevOps

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

DevOps seems to be the new cool kid on the block lately, especially in Agile circles.  New user groups are popping up and it’s a fashionable topic to talk about at conferences; Many of the more leading edge consultancies are … Continue reading →

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Luna Quote

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

“The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.” — John Gruber

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Conway’s Law

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

While Nigel has you thinking about how you govern your agile projects I want you to spend some time thinking about a man by the name of Melvin Conway.  In 1968 he made this observation: “…organizations which design systems … … Continue reading →

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Luna Links – Coal Marketing, Jonathan Ives and a Planaterium

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Coal Marketing – Another insightful visualisation, this time via Seth Godin. Jonathan Ive – The remarkable rise and influce of the man who has designed every major apple product since the candy coloured iMac made it’s debut. HTML 5 and the … Continue reading →

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“You can’t control what you can’t measure” – Tom DeMarco recants on his famous principle.

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Governance and funding of business investment using agile development methods are two hotly debated and misunderstood topics among the agile community. With governance principles originally borrowed from the exacting fields of construction engineering and accounting, where things can often be … Continue reading →

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Luna Links – Clay Shirky on why the future of the internet is safe

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

Who hid the mouse? A wonderful question posed by a 4 year old child trying to interact with the television that her boring Dad is insisting on watching 1970s sitcoms on.  It is wonderful because it portends a generation of … Continue reading →

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Never employ someone who left their last job because they stopped learning

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

Imagine a typical job interview situation. Bright young thing (BYT) in the chair opposite you (as the hiring manager) with a resume to die for, 2 open source hackapps in the local market, they’ve survived the pair programming test with … Continue reading →

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SDC Conference Agile Resources from @nxdnz Keynote

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Monkeys, Hack Days and Nerf Guns: what can agile look like? Software Education run an annual conference in both Wellington and Sydney that focuses on the changing role of Business Analysts in the agile sphere – a tricky and much … Continue reading →

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Luna Links – Angry Birds, Radiation Dosage and the Shuttle Discovery

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

We love the little curated lists of links on many of the blogs we read, so we wanted to do the same thing here at Luna Tractor.  As a rule they will be relevant to the typical blog themes, but … Continue reading →

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Why you should try a Hack-A-Thon

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

In product and software development organisations there is very often a deep sense of needing to justify all the time we spend working on things.  I catch myself doing the mental arithmetic: is what I’m doing now really ‘adding value’? … Continue reading →

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