(sorry if this answer is posted twice) The last thing a (agile) team of smart people needs is resorting to autocracy or bribes. In your case, that won't help...
... Completely in line with that. I have coached/teached/explained/?? people that is the virtue of diversity. This is the reason why, as a manager, I don't...
I came across an interesting article where developers of a major video game hit look back on their development process. A lot of their lessons learned are very...
I've mentioned before that one of the things I see a places doing is continuous interface experimentation. The official Google blog recently talked about a few...
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... If your goal is to measure the current usability of the services, thereby establishing a baseline against which you can measure changes in future versions,...
A friend of mine just sent this to me, and I thought this was terribly insightful: "Agile is to software development what poetry is to literature. It is very...
PMJI, a couple of observations ... 1. "[end users] are encouraged ... to provide honest and objective feedback, regardless of the impact on the development...
Excellent! Now I know my target market :-) As an aside to all of this, we continued the rewards / punishments conversation into the Agile Roundtable discussion...
Hello, Jonathan. On Friday, September 5, 2008, at 4:36:54 PM, you ... Oh, yes, it is well-established. Punishment will alter behavior -- while the punisher is...
... Salt ... were ... thoughts. Mine was that there are quite a number of conflicting building blocks to this conversation, and i didn't see any unifying or...
Hi Ron, Yes, I've had a cat. I'd say that they are the exception that proves the rule. It's amazing how well they can take your reward / punishment system and...
... Blasphemy! You're obviously an devolved wretch of a being, craving that positive extrinsic reinforcement all of the time! How dare you consider yourself to...
... I think that this makes my point about a lack of understanding of the breadth of rewards and punishments rather well. Thanks! Cheers, Jonathan House Agile...
Hi Jon, ... Good point, and well worth making. Honest and objective doesn't mean rude or demeaning. There is a vast difference between "This isn't the way I do...
Hello, Jonathan. On Friday, September 5, 2008, at 8:56:11 PM, you ... People are better at it than cats. ... And it does. Until we turn our back. ... This...
I think the first conflicting building block revolves around the definition of reward and punishment. Jonathan's view, as far I understand, is too broad for me...
Hello, dgery2000. On Saturday, September 6, 2008, at 10:14:15 AM, ... Yes, that was what I heard as well. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com A long range...
Aww, now you've gone and injected a note of clarity into all of this. As Gery is already aware due to our sidebar conversation, I do have a tendency to pick...
If it's any consolation, Alistair has already chastised me about my choice of language. I doubt I'll change my ways, but at least I feel bad about not feeling...
Hi, Johnathan. I think you're using the words "punishment" and "reward" in ways different than common usage, and different than the technical terms in ...
William, ... I believe that you are correct. I have not made a major study of the field of psychology beyond some limited areas of interest, so I would agree...
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