Startup Applications List
If you’re frustrated with the time it takes your Windows PC to boot and then it seems to be running slowly you may have too many programs running at start-up – and have come to the right place to identify them.
looking at MSConfig, Windows Defender, the registry
From Work in Process, by Ron Jeffries.
All too often, we encounter so called Scrum teams with huge numbers of stories,even many projects, all going on at once. This never goes well, and it is counter to even the most basic principles of Scrum, Agile, even common sense.
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….large amounts of work in process will damage, possibly kill your project.
Excessive work in process causes defects. CAUSES defects. When people switch tasks, they lose context and more defects appear. Defects require rework. You get a defect-filled product, and you get it later. Not a good plan.
Worse yet, even if magically you could avoid having more defects, you still deliver everything later. Task switching takes time. The more you switch, the slower you go.
Still worse, even if you could switch tasks seamlessly–and you cannot–you would still deliver everything later. Look at the following picture:
Switching between features means that every feature is delivered, not a just bit later, but many times later! And they are delivered with more defects!
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i agree with most of this.
but actually, it’s counterintuitive to not keep everyone busy working all the time.
and when you keep everyone busy all the time, you cause multitasking and the ill effects described above.
Make a Yearly Habit of Visiting Your Google Dashboard
Even those who work at Google are often surprised at what they find when they visit their Google Dashboard. It’s a good idea to check in on what Google has on you regularly, for reasons both tinfoil-esque and practical.
Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng visits Google’s Chicago office and comes out with a newfound appreciation for just how much information, personal data, and settings Google offers to all its users—and how much we leave behind:
Who knew that I still had an Orkut account? I didn’t until today. I also have a Google Health account from 2008 with no records (aside from my height and weight), 15 public maps in Google Maps, and 3,000 archived Google Chat conversations. If I had Web History turned on, I would also be able to see every single Google search I have ever made, line by line-and it’s a good thing I don’t, because there have been a lot of embarrassing ones.
It can be a bit overwhelming, for certain, but the Dashboard offers a way to get to all of it, either directly or through Settings page links. Beyond just making sure there’s not as much of your past thoughts lurking online, changing things like your default Google Checkout address, and wiping out old credit cards, could save you some frustration down the line, too. Add a Dashboard appointment to your calendar and repeat it yearly.
What Google knows about you and how to tweak it [Ars Technica]….
