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This week, we had the opportunity to talk with lots of people at the ESRI Developers Summit about agile practices.  One of the popular questions we’ve been fielding has been about contracting in an agile environment.  At the risk of double posting the topic, check out Brian Noyle’s recent post about some of the conversations we’ve been having.

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Post written by Chris SpagnuolocloseAbout the Author Name: Chris Spagnuolo
Website: http://edgehopper.com
About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter Add comment

Yesterday’s keynote speaker at the ESRI Developers Summit was Alan Cooper.  Cooper is the author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum and About Face.  His talk was entitled Post Industrial Management.  Mainly, he discussed how to get non-technical people to have success and achieve their goals with software products.   He did make some very interesting and valid points regarding the management and executive view of software development.  In particular, he emphasized that organizational structure and technologies that worked in the past are failing today in the post-industrial bit-centric world.  I completely agree on this point.  Most of what passes for management today is based on industrial management, but the industrial age is over.  We need a new wave of executives to find the right organizational cultures and management tactics to support the new post-industrial knowledge workers.  Read the rest of this post

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About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter Add comment

I was reading some of Seth Godin’s blog today and came across the following quote from him:

“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.”

Sounds very agile to me.  If you have never read Seth’s blog, it’s an awesome read.  Check it out.

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Website: http://edgehopper.com
About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter Add comment

Well, I actually made it to Palm Springs and to the ESRI Developers Summit.  If you’re ever in Palm Springs, I have two words for you: Hotel Zoso.  The hotel rocks and it’s right in the heart of downtown Palm Springs.  Stay there if you ever have the chance.

The Dev Summit is packed this year with over 1300 developers from 690 organizations and 49 countries.  It’s getting bigger every year and it’s great to be here!  This morning, I sat through the Plenary Session and heard an awful lot of ESRI Kool-Aid being poured out (see Dave’s post for the gory details).  Seriously, lot’s of cool stuff looks like it’s coming our way in 9.3 .  Read the rest of this post