November 2007 - Posts
Summary Motley: How could a consulting methodology help me? There's no way - I work in a product company. Maven: Human Performance Technology (HPT) is an effective consulting methodology that uses a simple process to identify the root cause of human performance
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Summary Motley: I'll deal with performance issues when I have something to test. Then I'll run the profiler and just optimize the slow methods. Maven: Think about performance early in the development cycle. Set goals. Design for performance. Measure,
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Summary Motley: Developers keep making the same mistakes over and over. Can't they learn?!? Some kind of punishment is in order, like no more free soda! Maven: Don't just address the symptom - get to the root cause of a problem. Leverage the "Five Why's"
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Summary Motley: I'm not sold on this inspection thing. There were too many problems during our session. Plus, everyone just picks on the author and they hate having their code reviewed. Back to informal peer reviews for me. Maven: Follow inspection best
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