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waterlink

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About waterlink

Alex has been programming for more than 20 years, and had a commercial experience in variety of business domains and in both product and consulting companies of different stages.

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    Updated the post accordingly and also covered the Goodhart's law concern.

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    Thank you for feedback. I should address all these points in the article itself, actually. For now, here you go: First of all, this isn't based on Scrum at all (I'm not a fan of Sc…

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    Regarding the productivity of engineers and schedule, the focus isn't on the individual, however, on the team and its ability to collaborate and co-create. So the optimised schedul…

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    For the prepared items, there is actually another meeting on Friday, called Pre-Iteration Planning meeting where only Product Manager, Engineering Manager, and other necessary role…

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    Optimizing Focus and Collaboration Time of IC to 92% in Software – Feasible?

    I recently wrote an article outlining an approach to achieving a 92% focus & productive collaboration time in software engineering. It's a strategy involving cutting meetings, alig…

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    Here you go: https://gawker.com/349173/these-books-will-make-you-dumb There are few more like that on the internets.

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    That is actually a genius idea! Somebody needs to make an affiliate marketing blog about affiliate marketing blogs. ROFL

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    What about the legacy you leave after yourself? Be it invention, great article or a book, children who are better than you, or great businesses or non-profits. If everybody thought…

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    What was your topmost time investment and worst time-waster in the last 12 months? -- My best time investment was investing in my discipline by training to wake up at the same time…

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    My honest opinion is that software conceptually was created to allow for volatility of the requirements. If you want to have static requirements (or changing once per 5-10y), then …

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