No More Bugs: an excerpt from Jeff McKenna’s book Conscious Software Development

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: April 4, 2012
I have been spending a fair amount of my time these days editing Jeff McKenna’s new book, Conscious Software Development, coming soon from our publishing venture, Dymaxicon. Jeff’s voice is unique: irrascible, personal, anecdotal, and oddly zen-like. He has a knack for cutting to the quick of any issue. Case in point, this passage about [...]
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Kindles for all our CSM and CSPO students this month

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: February 9, 2012
We hear that the traditional year-one anniversary gift is paper. Does e-ink count? We think so! The Elements of Scrum is a year old, and to celebrate, Agile Learning Labs is giving a Kindle to every student in our Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner classes this month. And what a year it has [...]
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Agile Publishing: Lessons from academia in getting it right

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: October 19, 2011
I am always looking for others who are experimenting in the arena of agile publishing, as we are doing with our side venture, Dymaxicon, and I ran across a fascinating article today on a Bryn Mawr college blog called Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education. The article is by Rebecca Pope-Ruark (affectionately nicknamed RPR [...]
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Agile Learning Labs launches Dymaxicon with a pretty darn swanky party

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: August 24, 2011
Our thanks to everyone who turned out for Saturday’s Dymaxicon launch party at Internos Wine Cafe in the city. If you have been too busy building software to keep up with our hijinks here at Agile Learning Labs, we’ve launched a publishing company. We publish agile titles like The Elements of Scrum by Chris Sims [...]
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Agile Learning Labs is having a book party! Come find out what agile publishing is all about

By admin | Published: August 17, 2011
Late last year, Agile Learning Labs began incubating a new venture, Dymaxicon, to explore the publishing space for agile-themed books, and beyond. This Saturday, August 20th, we’ll be celebrating the success of our first two titles, The Elements of Scrum by Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson, and The Bad Mother, a novel by Nancy [...]
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Agile Learning Labs is having a party

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: August 9, 2011
Come help us celebrate the launch of Dymaxicon – a new kind of publishing house brought to you by Agile Learning Labs. Saturday, August 20, 2011, 6 to 8 pm Internos Wine Bar 3240 Geary Street, San Francisco Raise a glass and toast a new, agile way of producing books, videos and media. Join Chris [...]
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