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Quote of the Week
From Slacktivist:
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Randall Munroe has Something to Apologize For
Today’s XKCD webcomic entertained me far beyond the allowable limits.
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Align Your Metrics
An unusually long link-excavation strikes pay dirt: Greg points through Jorge Aranda to Ed Yourdon who, in the course of an article well worth reading, happens to point to an interview with Linda Rising (also worth your time) at InfoQ. The interview was conducted by Deborah Hartmann, a Toronto-based agile development consultant who co-authored a paper at the agile2006 conference called “Appropriate Agile Metrics: Using Metrics and Diagnostics to Deliver Business Value” (.pdf)
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What Did the Identity Provider Know?
…And when did it know it?
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Correlating Identities over Time
Kim Cameron responds to Paul Madsen responding to Kim Cameron, and I wonder what it is about Canadians and identity…
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Software Testing Cheat Sheet
Adam Goucher, who escaped the Previous Employer before I did, links to an excellent reference on software testing: Quality Tree Software‘s Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet. Many thanks to Elisabeth Hendrickson for sharing this with us.
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Fun introductions to RSS and Wikis
Bokardo posted links to a couple of good videos by Lee Lefever at Common Craft: RSS in Plain English and Wikis in Plain English.
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Battle Scars
I don’t think my rides are nearly as intense as Larry’s, but today at least I can boast about earning some (mild) scars. Here’s my route.
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Why Aren't We Using Electronic Health Records?
Greg sent me a link to a CBC.ca story: Doctors too slow to embrace electronic health records.
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Manage or Measure?
One of the rants that has been bubbling in my head for a while is about the current obsession with “metrics” in management circles. I usually blame this on MBA culture, though I must admit that I don’t have direct evidence to blame the business schools.
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