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Really important article on burnout in Software Development

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OK if you follow this blog you know by now how much I love Scott Hanselman and it’s no surprise that he’s written another great article on one of the dark areas of Software Development: Burnout

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToDealWithTechnologyBurnoutMaybeItsLifesCycles.aspx

I’ve seen it too many times, where great Engineers just get fed up with the daily grind of needing to deliver. As Scott says some times we just need to drop everything and take a break.

 

Scholarship – Women in Tech @ General Assembly in Melbourne – CLOSES MONDAY 12 September

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I really wish I had seen this earlier – only 3 days to get an application in for any women interested in this rare opportunity:

https://generalassemb.ly/apply/wdi-scholarship-application-melbourne

 

SCRUM PART 1:Intro to SCRUM

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This is the first in a series of posts on SCRUM. SCRUM is important, as it is one of the major modern agile approaches for software development. I am also preparing a tutorial on SCRUM and C# and it would be useful to have an overview.

The following is a great start to understanding SCRUM. It only takes 7 minutes – so if you don’t know anything about scrum then give this a go!!!!

There’s a bunch of posts coming up related to User Stories, Sprint Kickoffs, Sprint Retros and Reviews.

Next: User Stories

Hanselman on load testing websites…

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Interesting that this week we had a pretty big story in Australia relating to the failure of the government’s Census site, on the day of (once every 5 years) the census.

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and then Hanselman posts this:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TwoToolsForQuickAndEasyWebApplicationLoadTestingDuringDevelopment.aspx

Time to start learning about load testing and capacity planning