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Aaron’s Technology Musings : Pair Programming – Marketing FAIL
When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming". There are more times than I can count where I have been in conversations,
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Pop!Tech – The Impact of Technology on People
They hold an annual conference in the fall each year. Similar to TED
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Know Your Web Site: An Hour A Day with Google Analytics | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
Google Analytics is undoubtedly one of the most powerful web analytics packages out there. In fact, it’s so powerful, it’s difficult to know how to begin understanding all of the information it makes available. NTEN wants to help you unlock the power of Google Analytics. In this hands-on webinar, Avinash Kaushik, Google’s Analytics Evangelist, will teach you how to use web analytics reports to understand the performance of your web site in terms of measuring progress toward your organizational goals, but also to help you understand who your web site visitors are, where they come from, and what they’re doing on your site. You’ll leave the webinar with actionable tips and tricks you can use right away, regardless of your skill level.
Presented by Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist for Google and author of “Web Analytics: An Hour a Day”
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screencast for helping people (especially non-profits) get started with Google Analytics
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Praized Media, Inc. – Trust your tribes
The Praized platform is like local search in a box. It comes pre-loaded with over 17 million US and Canadian local business listings, complete with contact info and location maps. You get social features like friends, favorites, voting, sharing, user-generated tagging, and commenting. In sum, the Praized platform allows you to aggregate and organize local conversations within your community. And best of all, it’s free!
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SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise
an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki.
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Agile-08 Repeat Performance and Slides | enthiosys agile product management
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Buy a Feature – An Innovation Game
An online game to help customers prioritize product features.
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If you could suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible, what would it be?
It’s a question worth considering. Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time so many people (in all walks of life) could use some help, in small ways and big. In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the timeless wisdom that beyond a basic level of material wealth, the only thing that seems to increase individual happiness is… helping other people. In other words, help helps everybody.
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Use Google Moderator To Crowdsource Group Questions
a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask in a limited period of time, but it’s hard to know which questions the attendees are most interested in hearing discussed. Moderator lets users add questions and vote on the questions of others, so the cream rises to the top.
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Scours social networks and web sites for people you are looking for. Great way to find and learn about someone.
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Tasty Cupcakes – Tasty Cupcakes
“experiential learning games that accelerate the adoption and understanding of Agile principles in a fun and interactive way.”
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effective charts to communicate scope, schedule, cost change to a client
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Ways to get groups to decide on things, depending on setting, active participation
links for 2008-08-27
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I met Ben Rady at Agile 2008 and over lunch he explained how he can code and have continous testing happening in the background *as* he codes – no interruptions to his work unless a problem is found. Blew me away. Python people, try out his Python version and give him some feedback (he wants it).
links for 2008-08-26
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Applying Lean principles to the Scrum process. Agree with ideas on where waste can be removed. Well written.
links for 2008-08-25
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Explains how he has observed the PO done, and concludes by how it should be done, though there are few who are truly great Product Owners
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Scrum applies to the sales process