The Random Musings

Counter attacking style
A great account of how the counter-attacking strategy should be played.
(tags: soccer, tactics)

Socialtext Open Source Wiki – Socialtext Open Source Wiki
The open source version of SocialText. Might be a good alternative to MediaWiki and TWiki.
(tags: wiki, open source)

I discovered this great article on Agile Advice, about a check list of items (10 required; 4 optional) to follow when starting an Agile project.
Agile Team Launch – a Howto Guide for Managers
The points that appear to confirm what I have been absorbing for the last couple of months are identified in point # 2  [...]

Tim Bray – Atom As A Case Study
This was insightful, if for nothing else to understand how the standards body, IETF, that they used for the Atom specification uses mailing lists to do business.
Thank goodness there are people who are prepared to go through the bureaucracy of a standards body to get a standardized specification [...]

Mark Bregman – The Dilemma of Innovation
I listened to this last week, and was very impressed that a large company has come up with ways to understand that innovation can lead to a situation where you can no longer innovate because your customers want you to support the product that attracted them to you in [...]