RIF Notes #48

“In the software profession, it is common to hear advice like: “only hire the best and let them figure it out.” This sentiment is nearly as misguided as command-and-control and antithetical to Lean thinking. “Hire the best” is an elitist and ultimately lazy management philosophy. Comically, that attitude is often accompanied by an unwillingness to pay top dollar for such talent. But even if you could hire such a team, consider that a championship athletic team will almost always defeat an all-star team, because the quality of the relationships between qualified players is usually more important than the individual performances” – Corey Ladas

• Decoupling the Client and Server with Hypermedia
• A Bright Future for the Smart Client
• The Cult of the Root Cause
• Improvement Boards-“Let’s replace—or at least augment—the once-every-two-week “retrospective” meeting with a continuous process that’s part of our culture”
• Microsoft continues to be a leader in Gartner's Cloud IaaS MQ
• 16 New Code Analysis, Testing and Debugging Tools For Visual Studio 2017
• Principles, Patterns, and Practices of Mediocre Programming
• Sharpen your sense of (code) smell- a good series of blog posts by Dino Esposito.
• Windows Server heads toward End Of Line
• Blazor
• Don't call us, we'll call you: Inversion of Control Containers
• The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea