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Author: Manuel Kießling

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    Why developing without tests is like driving a car without brakes

    The following roots in something I heard from Jon Jagger at QCon London 2011 after his fantastic talk about Deliberate Practice. It was related to Test Driven Development. He asked “Why do cars have brakes?”. It made us think “To stop!”, but he said “No – to go faster”.

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    Visualization: Why working iterative works

    I’m really into visualizations. More often than not I can only really “get” something (a complex system, an abstract idea, a process etc.) when I see it visualized. You could call this the transformation of gut feelings into images.

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    German PostEmpfehlung: Literatur für Manager

    Ich werde oft gefragt, wie ich so ein hervorragender Manager geworden bin. Haha, quatsch, kein Mensch fragt mich das. Ich stelle mir nur manchmal vor, dass es so wäre. Dann weine ich mich langsam in den Schlaf… Wo war ich? Ach ja.