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A Scrum Master Is Not A Project Manager By Another Name
Project manager versus ScrumMaster
Traditionally, the project manager is a leader, a decision maker, a planner, someone who manages the project and the team and is the person accountable to the business for accomplishing the project objectives. The ScrumMaster's role is more that of coach and facilitator, a role…
Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)
Five points of calvinism (tulip)
Most objections to and attacks on Calvinism focus on the "five points of Calvinism," also called the doctrines of grace, and remembered by the mnemonic "TULIP." [...] The central assertion of these points is that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy, and that his…
Doctrine of predestination
Reformed theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will. While people are said to retain free will in that they willfully sin, they are unable to not sin because of the corruption of their nature due to…
Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document
Property quantifiers are ontological
We use the term property quantifiers for the declaration of the allowed number of instances of a certain property that an instance of its range or domain may have. These declarations are ontological, i.e. they refer to the nature of the real world described and not to our…
Guerilla Testing — Government Service Design Manual
Guerilla testing
Guerilla user testing is a low cost method of user testing. The term ‘guerilla’ refers to its ‘out in the wild’ style, in the fact that it can be conducted anywhere eg cafe, library, train station etc, essentially anywhere where there is significant footfall. [...] Guerilla…
Ontology
Ontology between realism and nominalism
Ontology, in analytic philosophy, concerns the determining of whether some categories of being are fundamental and asks in what sense the items in those categories can be said to "be". It is the inquiry into being in so much as it is being, or into beings insofar as they…
Osx Dictionary
stint |stint
stint |stint| verb [ with obj. often with negative ] supply an ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something): stowage room hasn't been stinted. • [ no obj. ] be economical or frugal about spending or providing something: he doesn't stint on wining and dining. • restrict…
bulwark |ˈbo͝olˌwərk
bulwark |ˈbo͝olˌwərk| noun 1 a defensive wall. • a person, institution, or principle that acts as a defense: the security forces are a bulwark against the breakdown of society. 2 (usu. bulwarks) an extension of a ship's sides above the level of the deck. ORIGIN late Middle…
Quotes About Introspection (133 Quotes)
Self-improvement
“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.” ― Confucius
Rdf Primer
Markup tags carry no built-in meaning
This particular markup language uses the words "sentence," "person," and "animal" as tag names in an attempt to convey some of the meaning of the elements; and they would convey meaning to an English-speaking person reading it, or to a program specifically written to interpret…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The individual as a focal point of the universe
At one extreme, then, we have the sacred individual—the unique personal ego, separate from both nature and God—defined as such by a society which, almost in the same breath, commands him to be free and commands him to conform. At the other extreme is the coolie, the cog in the…
Society's game with self-contradictory rules
Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. Just because we do not exist apart…
Bacteria as honorable foes that prune mankind
For the enemy/friends of man are his pruners. They prevent him from destroying himself by excess fertility, so that a person who dies of malaria or tuberculosis should be honored at least as much as one who has died for his country in battle. He has made room for the rest of…
The Daily Portal – Jon Mitchell, Cosmos Journalist
Ripples of meaning around us
Even though it seemed a little New Age-y for the Silicon Valley set (yeah, right), I started wearing an interesting blue medallion around that I found because it reminded me of the portal. It's a series of nested squares arranged concentrically around a little square portal in…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Association roles
Each topic that participates in an association plays a role in that association called the association role. In the case of the relationship “Puccini was born in Lucca”, expressed by the association between Puccini and Lucca, those roles might be “person” and “place”; for…
Two Decades Of The Language-action Perspective
The conversation for action loop
Winograd and Flores illustrated how a language-action perspective can guide design with a model they called the "Conversation for Action." This is a loop in which one person makes a request that is agreed to and fulfilled by another person. This universal pattern of human…
Zappa Quotes
The cool-person syndrome
The cool-person syndrome is peculiarly American. Part of that has to do with the way the educational business is run in the U. S. It’s not based on how much you can teach your child: it’s based on how much money the suppliers of basic materials can make off your child…