2011 season may start late
With the increasing turmoil in Bahrain, it looks like the first race of this year’s Formula One season could be called off. BBC reports that “this weekend’s GP2 Asia event at the Sakhir circuit has been cancelled after the unrest overnight, when police moved in to clear a protest camp in a square in the middle of the Bahrain capital Manama.”
[Virgin Racing team boss] “Booth said a decision on whether the test would go ahead would need taking by 25 February, when the freight is scheduled to be sent out, and one on the race a week later, at the beginning of March.”
If the decision is to skip Bahrain, then the F1 season will start two weeks later in Australia (March 25-27).
Cube farms are bad for your health
If this story is true, then it’s yet another reason to work in a team area rather than individual cubicles:
An L.A. County employee apparently died while working in her cubicle on Friday, but no one noticed for quite some time. 51-year-old Rebecca Wells was found by a security guard on Saturday afternoon.
There’s a close-knit team!
Happy 10th birthday Agile
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Agile Manifesto. At the heart of Agile are four values:
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”
To me it seemed like common sense, and in fact I’d been working in this way for some time before Agile had a name. It’s always felt like the right way to develop software – working together, with the customer, to deliver what they want rather than the adversarial way I’ve seen Waterfall projects run (and fail). Read more
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