Teaching, Instruction, Education
Ambitions for someone else's mind
Learning via teaching
Why we should read
The curse of knowledge
The cultivation of inherent faculties
It cannot be taught in words
The wisdom of the apprentice
Institutions of learning
Not of method but of heart
Results of a search
The great teacher
This is how I lived
Multiple choice
I think very well of him indeed
Technical viruosity
Learning how to learn
Immer wieder
No-nonsense
Interaction of Color
Welcome to class
Software that nobody wants
The 'date scrum' anti-pattern
Date Scrum is an R&D pattern where developers are asked to estimate software project requirements upfront for the entirety of the project. After the project is green lighted and the budget is set based on the final estimates, the team then holds daily scrums to status and manage risk as they “iterate” the solution toward the release date. To some, this approach is described as doing Waterfall in sprints.
The fundamental problem with Date Scrum is that the team is de-focused from discovering the best solution. Instead they are heavily focused on delivering Something™ by the Date™. Engineers are problem solvers, and if the primary problem becomes delivering Something™ that will pass QA by the Date™, they will, with enough pressure, solve that exact problem.