David Rogers
David Rogers

David Rogers

Community organizer and nerd wrangler, instructional speaker, application developer, professional freelancer, dad. | https://about.me/al_the_x

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David Rogers
May 2, 2019 · 1 min read

Never assume the monitoring agent is on duty

I learned a thing or two about Rackspace Cloud and OpenStack about the availability of monitoring agents

David Rogers
Apr 24, 2019 · 2 min read

Simple tips to keep Agile Estimating and Planning fun and productive.

Estimating is hard. Here are some tried-and-true mistakes that I’ve seen many teams make when getting started.

David Rogers
Jan 17, 2019 · 2 min read
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Making GitHub Notifs Great Again

Well, maybe useful again would be a start. If you’re like me, GitHub notifications ceased to be a…

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David Rogers
Jun 4, 2018 · 8 min read

Confessions of a Former Rockstar (Developer)

I recently attended The Lead Dev conference in NYC and saw Jason Lengstorf give a talk on the dangers of “Rockstar Developers” to your team, presumably from his own first-hand experience. Here’s my longer version.

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David Rogers
May 26, 2018 · 6 min read

An article recently made the rounds at work, Reality-Driven Development by Barry Jones, that I made a long thread of comments regarding. I recommend reading his first. I’m going to comment on my experience with Kanban and Scrum and where I feel the strengths and weaknesses lie with each.

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