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Re: Engine Yard Solo at VMWorld Europe 2009

joearnold — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:49:54 -0000

More commentary about the day's events: http://www.virtualization.info/2009/02/live-fro...

Re: Kanban: “Just set it and forget it!”

joearnold — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:35:07 -0000

How they handle releases is to create buckets that live in the 'done' column. Sometimes when something hits the done column it needs to be deployed immediately (like an emergency bug fix). Sometimes the team is working on two different products at the same time. The team uses different colored post-it notes for each product. Each product has its own bucket where features/bug fixes congregate -- waiting for the next release for that product. As for the 'activities related to a release' task. I don't think they create another 'thing to do' that works its way through the kanban system. When it's time, I think the team just re-evaluates everything in that bucket before launch.

Re: Leaving Yahoo!

joearnold — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:21:04 -0000

Indeed! Let's do many lunches when I get back! See you soon.

Re: Kanban: “Just set it and forget it!”

joearnold — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:10:04 -0000

That's one option. Usually what this team does is leave it in 'test'. The developer works with the tester to fix it. This is the 'stop-the-line' mentality of bug fixing. If a bigger issue comes up, then another ticket is created and is prioritized by the product manager. There are a couple of other possibilities too. Check out my post on 'What to do with bugs when using Kanban'
http://joearnold.com/2007/12/what-to-do-with-bu...

Re: Playing with heroku @ Technical Pickles

joearnold — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:21:38 -0000

Heroku is fun to play with. Curious to know how much they will charge once they get out of beta. Thanks for pointing out the gem.

Re: (WordPress) Showing number of comments on front page and on each post

joearnold — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:38:25 -0000

Thanks! That fixed the problem for me.

My theme already had the appropriate calls in it to satisfy the advice at http://disqus.com/faq/#faq-17

Re: The ERP Money-Back Guarantee

joearnold — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:01:21 -0000

Nice article. The cul-de-sac analogy is square on.