Assorted Links – January 2012

Disclaimer: The material is not necessarily new, just relatively new to me. I come by most of these links on twitter. Hope there’s something new and worthwhile for you, even if you’re also on twitter.

• Reasoning: Good Agile Architecture (German)
  What would a software archaeologist think of your code?
• Reasoning: The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them
  Argues convincingly that most teams are chaotic and not ready to adopt agile.
• Resource: Manager Tools “Basics”
  Yep, “Manager”. There, I said the bad word! That being said, Manager Tools is a great podcast series for those who strive to be good managers and not a PITA.
• Science: Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams
  We would have guessed it anyway, but now there’s proof 🙂
• Science: The Rise of the New Groupthink
  I wouldn’t have guessed this, though: Groups and creativity may not be a perfect match…
• Science: You Become What You Pretend to Be
• Idea: Agile Levels of Fluency
  Differentiate between the various stages of agile adoption
• Idea: Lunch Beat (German)
  Spend your lunch break dancing the night lunchtime away

And for the finishing touch:

• Cat content: Cute or funny
  That’s what the internet’s for. And don’t you forget it 😉