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Backlog Visualizations: Tables Are Your Friend
Agile backlogs have become the standard tool used by software teams to document, prioritize, and discuss functionality requests. Although agile backlogs are simple to use and easy to implement, they suffer from the same problem as all lists—growing to a point where they become unmanageable. Although Agile methodologies suggest a number of practices to help…
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DPL Reading List – August 28, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Doodling Can Help You Get Ahead at Work – “A study conducted last year by a Stanford Graduate School of Business researcher found that concepts have more impact when presented as whiteboard-style drawings than when photos are used. Observers watching…
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Browser Debugging Between OS X and Visual Studio in Parallels
Over the last seven months I’ve been developing web applications using Visual Studio in Parallels 10, and the experience is alternatingly fantastic and frustrating, depending on the day. Some days I get the performance I want out of Parallels, and other days it’s incredibly sluggish and quirky, especially when debugging in a browser. After several…
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DPL Reading List – August 21, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science – “The field of network science shows us two things. (1) The hero’s journey is the blueprint for creating career success. (2) We can all be heroes. It just takes…
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Product Development at Nebraska Global / Don’t Panic Labs
Last Thursday we hosted an open house as part of Agile Lincoln’s monthly meetup. We were blown away by how many people showed up to see who we are, learn what we’re doing, and hear me talk about our approaches to software engineering. Since then a number of people have requested the slides and recording of…
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DPL Reading List – August 14, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Want a Better Pitch? Watch This. (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Again: audiences are skeptical. So you must give them evidence that the future you’ve laid out is, indeed, attainable. Musk does that by letting his audience…
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DPL Reading List – August 7, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Claire Lew at Big Omaha: “What goes unsaid hurts your company the most” (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for recommending this) – “Studies have shown that futility is 1.8 more times more powerful an obstacle to feedback than fear… The reason why…
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GitHub Electron Tutorial: Using Electron-Boilerplate
GitHub’s Electron framework allows you to leverage the best of web technologies in a cross-platform desktop application. This tutorial shows you how to build your first Electron app using szwacz/electron-boilerplate. A few prerequisites: Git (I use the Git Shell packaged with GitHub for Windows) Node.js NSIS, if you are on Windows and want to build…
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DPL Reading List – July 31, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Why the Great Glitch of July 8th Should Scare You (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “The big problem we face isn’t coordinated cyber-terrorism, it’s that software sucks. Software sucks for many reasons, all of which go deep,…
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2015 Summer Interns: Learning Through Experience
Doug’s post from a couple weeks ago reminded me of one of the most interesting philosophies that I have seen to fruition during my time at Don’t Panic Labs. While we are always interested in engineers with a considerable amount of experience, we especially look for bright, young engineers that, regardless of inexperience, exhibit an…
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