20May 2008
Echo Louder Than the Boom
Demographics play a big role in the world. From marketers to city planners everyone is impacted one way or another by the population makeup. Currently, the most significant impact is thought to come from the Baby Boomers (those born between 1947 and 1966), a bulge in the population distribution affecting Canada and the US the most.
"Boom Bust and Echo" (by David Foot, 1996) outlined how this boom was going to affect Canadians in everything from the aging of the population to health care costs.
Sherry Cooper more recently updated the outlook in “The New Retirement” (2008) and talks about how the […]
16May 2008
TDD Inaction
Our company is on the path towards adopting full agile development practices. As the senior “manager” this fits into three of my goals:
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Software excellence
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Delivering maximum value to clients as soon as possible
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Sustainable pace
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