David Norton

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The Ticking Time Bombing Of Technical Debt

by David Norton  |  December 4, 2011  |  1 Comment

The timer flashes red 5:32, 5:31, 5:30 counting down to its final terrible conclusion. James Bond calmly leans over the device, “So is it the red or green wire, let’s go with lucky red”, snip. The counter jumps from 5:24 to 0:30. ”Ahh not so lucky red, lets try the green”, snip. The counter stops, [...]

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Will 2011 See Our Love Affair With Scrum End?

by David Norton  |  January 16, 2011  |  2 Comments

If you  talk about agile to a developer you often hear the reply “oh you mean Scrum” – the two have become synonymous.  By any measure Scrum is the most well known of the agile methods (is Scrum a method is for another blog), search results, blogs, books or surveys – its top of the [...]

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