Year: 2015

Not prioritising architectural needs

From Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied, there was this little paragraph that I think many teams (including my own) tend to forget about: Developer Responsibilities You are responsible for providing information (sometimes including your underlying assumptions and possible alternatives) to the customer in order to help her prioritize the stories. You are responsible for resisting […]

Bayesian tanks

The frequentist vs bayesian debate has plagued the scientific community for almost a century now, yet most of the arguments I’ve seen seem to involve philosophical considerations instead of hard data. Instead of letting the sun explode, I propose a simpler experiment to assess the performance of each approach. The problem reads as follows (taken […]

ISH 2015 — first impressions

ISH, held every two years in Frankfurt, describes itself as “The world’s leading trade fair The Bathroom Experience, Building, Energy, Air-conditioning Technology, Renewable Energies”. At Neurobat we develop systems for improved and more efficient indoor climate control systems, and it was only natural that we attend as visitors. A small party from our company visited […]

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