Obduction
September 9, 2016
Hunrath, home of the humans, primary color yellow. Kaptar, home of the Arai, primary color blue. Maray, home of the Villein, primary color green. Soria, home of the Mofang, primary color red. The War The Mofang had amazing technology, well beyond the other species, and at first the interactions between worlds seemed cordial and productive. […]
Blindsight
August 28, 2016
Blindsight – the ability to respond to visual stimuli without consciously perceiving them, a condition which can occur after certain types of brain damage. Podcast transcript Blindsight review.txt Four types of eye movement saccades – Ballistic, conjugate (= moving in same direction) eye movements that change the point of fixation. smooth pursuit movements – Much […]
Agile / Scrum process
August 22, 2016
An Agile / Scrum product flow consists of a number of objects: Product A product might contain the themes, epics, and stories that describe these enhancements from the user’s perspective. Products can have a narrow focus with few user stories or a wider context with many user stories, each containing several tasks. You create products […]
How to Agile
August 22, 2016
Project managers trying to understand what Agile is really all about often ask how Agile project management is different from traditional project management techniques. One of the best ways to describe the differences would be to walk through an Agile project plan. An agile project plan is feature based. Most project managers are used […]
Divergence
August 3, 2016
Constantine had once been told that a mind was a sentence that could read itself. A book might have thoughts written within it, but something external had to be applied to the book in order to read the words. But what if words could be written in some medium that allowed the words to take […]
Capacity
August 2, 2016
So what exactly is a personality construct? Ah! That’s the crux of the matter. A personality construct is simply a human mind running on a computer. Actually, “computer” is an old-fashioned phrase for an old-fashioned concept. Nowadays we say “processing space.” So I am a personality construct. Does that mean I am no longer human? […]
Disciplined Agile – Roles
July 5, 2016
Any given person will be in one or more roles, an individual can change role(s) over time, and any given role will have zero or more people performing it at any given time. For example, Simon may be in the role of team member and architecture owner right now but step into the role of […]
Agile versus Matrix
July 4, 2016
In Scrum / Agile team resources are fixed throughout the duration of the project and features are variable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development#The_Agile_Manifesto In a Matrix organisation resources allocation is variable and features are fixed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management Agile / Scrum allows for variations late in the project where a traditional approach does not (or less). This is because Agile / […]
Recursion
July 2, 2016
And so the younger races had made something a little like a computer virus, something like a pervasive bit of telepathy, something like an intricate pattern of signals, and had allowed it to spread throughout the universe. And everywhere a suitably advanced processing space or mind or pattern set evolved, it would settle and take […]
The Night Watch (by James Mickens)
June 30, 2016
“A s a highly trained academic researcher, I spend a lot of time trying to advance the frontiers of human knowledge. However, as someone who was born in the South, I secretly believe that true progress is a fantasy, and that I need to prepare for the end times, and for the chickens coming home […]