Broadcasting blog posts to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

I recently read two descriptions (here and here) on broadcasting blog posts to Twitter and Facebook using TwitterFeed. I do exactly this with AgileCarnival which was a way to create a list on Twitter, before they had lists. But I have to admit, I find TwitterFeed limiting. There is a better, more versatile solution … [...]

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The High Cost of Business Disruption

In an interesting blog post titled Make the Hairs on the Back of Your Neck Stand Up, Israel Gat discusses the difficulty of maintaining and adapting large ERP installations especially with regard to technical debt:
“The software decayed and decayed but technical debt had never been reduced. Consequently, the cost of change, any change, today is [...]

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Scrum events in China and New Zealand

There’s a lot of activity in the Scrum world at the moment. The Scrum Alliance is working hard to promote local and regional Scrum Gatherings and events. I’ve just become aware of two such events, and although I’m not in a position to take advantage of them myself, I hope that you may be able [...]

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5 Google Wave invitations.

I‘ve been playing with Google wave for a while now, and I have to admit that I really like it. It’s received a lot of mixed reviews, and I can understand some of the criticisms. I also believe that many of the initial objections to Wave will disappear once the ideas and concepts behind Wave [...]

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Bob Sutton on “Crappy People versus Crappy Systems”

ShareBob Sutton on “Crappy People versus Crappy Systems”I‘ve enjoyed Bob Sutton’s blog for a while now. If you’re not familiar with Bob, he’s theProfessor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School. He often blogs about topics that are directly relevant to the Scrum community including topics on systemic change, collaboration and management [...]

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