Yesterday I suggested that a lot of process improvement is trying to eliminate the overlap between roles. For example, when people talk about making job descriptions “better”, that is often […]
Read MoreBlogger Etiquette?
Someone mirrored one of my posts from earlier this week – http://managerspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/02/rethinking-process-improvement.html At the bottom, he wrote “link”, linking to Creative Chaos. Otherwise, I would think the material was his. […]
Read MoreRethinking Process Improvement – III
If software development is an assembly line, then unclear roles is a real problem (see illustration.) You don’t know who is supposed to tightnen the nut. It might be tightend […]
Read MoreA Box Of A Different Color
Better Software Magazine published by artilce “A Box of a Different Color” this month If you like this blog, you would probably enjoy Better Software. They have a free trial […]
Read MoreRethinking Process Improvement – II
This is image 2 from Winston Royce’s Paper – “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems“ Let’s look at each stage for the process – requirements, design, coding, testing … […]
Read MoreSolid presentation advice …
Suggestions and Examples of What Not to Submit 1. Attendees are paying to take classes—they don’t want to hear a sales pitch, no matter how thickly veiled. Please do not […]
Read MoreRethinking Process Improvement – I
Most of our ideas about process improvement come from a factory analogy – which was Invented by Frederick W. Taylor at the beginning of the 20th century. His idea was […]
Read MoreBlue Man Group – I
First, some background. I submit that there are currently two very big extremes in the world of software conferences: Death by Powerpoint and Open Spaces. The Death By PowerPoint Conferences […]
Read MoreNon-Functional Testing?
There’s an interesting discussion going on at the Association For Software Testing discussion list on non-functional testing. Basically, Danny Faught thinks the term is weak and is looking for alternatives. […]
Read MoreHP Culture, Circa 1976
Wozniak:”No, I’m never going to leave Hewlett-Packard. It’s my job for life. It’s the best company because it’s so good to engineers.” It really treated us like we were a […]
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