Following were the most read blogs in 2012 on Managed Chaos:

1. Upstream Connection Time Out Error in Nginx
2. Setting up Tomcat Cluster for Session Replication
3. Inverting the Testing Pyramid
4. Simple Design
5. Cannot create JDBC driver of class ” for connect URL ‘null’
6. IMEI Unlock: Downgrade iPhone 3Gs baseband to 5.13.04 from 6.15.00
7. Could not inspect JDBC autocommit mode
8. Goodbye Simplicity; I’m Object Obsessed
9. Enabling Multicast on your MacOS (*Unix)
10. How to move CVS repository without losing history?
11. How to Access Raw HTTP Headers in Chrome?
12. he Window of Opportunity Phenomenon
13. Deliberate Practice: The Expressway to becoming an Expert
14. Single Assert Per Unit Test: Myth
15. Benefits of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
16. My Take on Services vs. Product Company
17. OO Design Principles
18. Naked Agile
19. Hudson: Access Denied User is missing the Read permission
20. Is your Scrum Master Effective?
21. Importance of Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)
22. Skills a good Product Owner should Master
23. Story Points and Velocity: Recipe for Disaster
24. Advantages of Part-time Coaching
25. What Software Company should I join in India?

Recently I facilitated a workshop at the Agile Goa 2012 Conference titled – “Agile Way of Dealing with Uncertainty in a Complex Adaptive World“.

Abstract: It is human nature to look for patterns while solving new problems. We have a dangerous tendency to reuse what we already know to solve the next problem. We rarely discard what we’ve learned; we simply build on top of it. Sometimes this is a useful tactic, but often new problems and their context are slightly (if not vastly) different than the previous ones. And applying our previous way of doing things, will not be best suited for tackling the new problem.

In the software world, we’ve seen a similar desire to find the “one true way”, “the BEST method”, “the silver bullet” to solve all software development problems. Alas, after decades of trying we’ve not found one.

In this workshop, I’ll let you discover why this is not possible and possibly explain how best to deal with this problem. This ideas in this workshop are based on my experience backed by latest research from Cognitive Science, Complex Adaptive System’s Theory and Evolutionary Psychology.

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