I’ve been back from vacation for more than two weeks now; I really should find some time to clear out the backlog of blog posts to write, shouldn’t I? Maybe if I write them down here, that will give me some incentive to knock out several of them over the weekend.
Things to talk about:
- Video games: I’ve finished Elite Beat Agents, Phoenix Wright, and Elebits.
- Random leanish stuff. Queues at the airport, maybe some thoughts about things I don’t understand about Lean Product Development, maybe something about Chief Engineers.
- The Earthsea series.
- A talk I just went to by Mike Cohn.
And that’s just off the top of my head; probably if I went to my saved item list in Reader, I’d find a few more things to write about.
Actually I know of one example of the latter right now; it won’t take long, so I’ll just go and do it now…
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I very much look forward to your views on Earthsea. Have you read all six books?
3/20/2007 @ 10:37 pm
Yeah, I just reread them all over vacation. My second time for the last two, my third time (I think) for Tehanu, and I have no idea how many times I’ve read the earlier ones.
I think I took some notes right after the fifth and sixth books came out, too; I’ll try to dig them up and post them first. I’m curious how my views have changed over the intervening years.
3/21/2007 @ 11:35 am
Man, how do you find time to play all those video games??
Anyway, yes, please do blog about Mike Cohn’s talk. It was a good talk with lots of interesting topics. I particularly liked your question about, when the addition of (supposedly) irrelevant information changed the estimate, which ended up being more accurate? I don’t think he quite got the question. However, I had to go and couldn’t hang around to hear if you managed to discuss it with him afterward.
3/21/2007 @ 8:57 pm
Going on vacation for a couple of weeks and bringing a DS helps – normally, I don’t churn through them nearly this fast…
3/21/2007 @ 9:04 pm
(I can’t figure out how to post a trackback entry.) I posted a blog entry about Mike Cohn’s talk here. Not much of substance at the moment but I intend to dig into details later.
3/23/2007 @ 12:45 pm
[…] Since Stuart brought it up (see his blog post on the talk if you want another take), I might as well talk about another question I had. Mike presented some very interesting examples (you can see his slides, by the way) of studies that showed that, when people were given extra, irrelevant information, their estimates for tasks increased. (My favorite example was when group A and group B were given exactly the same text, but in one case on a single piece of paper while in another case spread over seven pieces of paper.) To which I asked: that’s neat, but which estimate is more accurate? […]
3/26/2007 @ 9:46 pm