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Comment on Precision Listening by Daniel mutisya

Daniel mutisya — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:26:04 +0000

Precision listening involves taking note of main ideas especially in a long text.

Comment on Emergent Requirements by When to Agile and How much to Agile – that is the question « Herbjorn's Blog

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:15:35 +0000

[...] rather than specifiable. I think this is a very good way to see it, but please also consider that agile methods often practice a freezing of requirements. So, when you use agile methods you would normally not allow changes to the requirements during an [...]

Comment on Emergent Requirements by Donald Bosart

Donald Bosart — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:10:28 +0000

This is akin to adaption to environmental changes in biological systems. If the changes are sufficiently slow then an organism can optimize to conserve energy and “optimize for efficiency”; however, in a rapidly changing environment, such overly “specialized” organisms fail to adapt and thus are ill suited to survive.

However, a rapidly changing environment should not be looked on as some sort of virtue as it (as in biological systems) inherently is a destructive and often energy wasteful system that stresses the biological systems to the point often of temporary collapse.

Too often rapid change is lauded by those who think it is more desirable than the other extreme, bureaucracy, standards, and process. The truth is such extremes are just that, extremes of the pendulum of what is perceived is “best practice”.

Comment on How To Pick Eagles by Dr. Robert A. Zawacki

Dr. Robert A. Zawacki — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:30:13 +0000

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Comment on Informative Feedback by Kali & Maria

Kali & Maria — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:11:51 +0000

this is the worst informative feedback ive gotten. u haven’t informed shit.
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understanding nothing