Mike Cottmeyer wrote an excellent article about the importance of eliminating dependencies in agile projects: http://www.leadingagile.com/2008/12/secret-to-organizational-agility.html How many times have the following been true: "Many teams are trying to sprint through product development using a traditional MRD or PRD." "Many teams are working with traditional project managers who are doing their best to be agile, but have been trained to manage dependencies and tell people what to do." "Teams are trying to be agile with tightly coupled software architectures, insufficient test coverage, legacy code bases, and unable to do a daily build." Removing dependencies...

As the popularity of Web 2.0 is growing, so is the ability for others to observe and evaluate your story and your personal online brand.  This article from JASE marketing reports that a "survey of 500 top colleges found that 10 percent of admissions officers said they look at MySpace and Facebook to evaluate applicants." I've always lived by two golden rules with regards to blogging: 1) Blog only something you would wish to see printed and cited at any time in the future. 2) Do not edit or update a blog assuming that a printed/archived/cached copy of the original does not...

I'm not sure what changed.  FireFox used to be one of the most stable browsers I'd ever used.  However, since the upgrade to the 3.x track I've had nothing but problems.  The browser is still functionally great, but the stability has taken a nose-dive.  I've had crashes and lockups on both XP and Vista and despite getting the latest updates and fixes in both environments, the problems continue.  I'd switch to Chrome if it weren't for concerns over security vulnerabilities.  It's a new browser that's still in beta so I'm not surprised there are a few kinks to iron out;...