Category: Technology
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What on earth is “mob programming”?!
The other day I heard Woody Zuill – an Agile Coach at Hunter Industries in San Diego, US – speak about “mob programming”. At first, the simpleton in me thought this meant writing code dressed in fancy suits, wearing shady hats and stylish sunglasses … Woody corrected this presumption fairly swiftly: “mob programming” involves having…
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Wearable trends to look out for in 2014
I remain fascinated by everything that’s happening in the wearable technology space. I wrote about this space earlier, looking at companies such as Jawbone and Airstrip. With the annual Consumer Electronics Show (‘CES’) just behind us, I thought it would be good to look at some wearable trends to keep an eye on in 2014: Gaming –…
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Book review: “Developing Products in Half the Time”
Partly due to the advocates of the Lean Startup movement, these days lots of people in the product space talk about rapid product development and looking at ways to get their products to market faster. Actually, one could argue that the roots of this idea are much older and the book “Developing Products in Half…
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What can 3D printing technology bring us?
One of the new technology trends which I’m very excited about is 3D printing. 3D printing is the process of making of a three-dimensional solid object of any shape from a digital model, using an additive process where successive layers of material are added in different shapes (see Fig. 1 and 2 below). To be…
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