The link of the day is: What Works in Software Development (Or – How To Be Lazy Without Really Trying) (HTBL) HTBL is, essentially, an agile methodology for one person. […]
STAR East Lightning Talk LineUp!
I am pleased to announce the initial line-up for lightning talks at STAR East, 2007: Scott Barber, Performance Testing in Five MinutesJames Bach, What I do when I see a […]
Hosting Fix-ed!
Last week I switched hosting providers to GoDaddy. The only major mix-up I experience was that I lost the link to Chapter 15 of Jim Brosseau’s book proposal, which is […]
Actual E-Mail – II
I’ve been carefully re-reading that email, and it is not as bad as I initially thought. Actually, it makes very few over-the-top promises. Only one sentence really sticks out at […]
Actual E-Mail – I
This is a forward from an actual email I got today. It’s a literal email; it is a cut and paste. If you could, please, write in a few comments. […]
A Testing Fairy Tale
I found a link to this on Pradeep Soundararajan’s Blog; it is a story by Jerry Weinberg about software testing. Here’s the article – Test Trimming: A Fable About Testing […]
Testing Lessons from Mathematics – Intro
You may not know it, but there are a whole bunch of things that are lumped into Math, somewhat haphazardly. Statistics, for example, could fit well in the business school […]
Blogger 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. […]
Errata
I’m pretty buried in side projects right now, but I did want to get a few things out. First, I found this bit from Joel Spolsky, excerpted from the book […]
Against Systems – IV
I’ve been looking for a way to wrap this up, when I stumbled accross and article titled “Process as a Substitute for Competance” that seems to do it for me […]
… I was wrong
A few weeks ago I put out a post on Elisabeth Henricksen’s 2002 presentation, “Why Are My Pants On Fire?”. My conclusion was that the sentiment was obvious, but people […]
Against Systems: Interlude …
More Against Systems to come, but first, a couple of things … 1) Jon Kohl points out that we only exist because of little systems like circulation, muscular, the solar […]
Against Systems – III
Did you know that honor codes that consist of a specific list can be gamed? For example, the US Air Force Academy Honor Code, at one time, was: “We shall […]
Intuition
James Bach is running a rapid software class over the web, and I am enjoying it. (You can take the course for $250 per session; read about it – here). […]
Great Writing
George Dinwiddie wrote this and it struck me as worth quoting… 5. In spite of a technical background that goes back to childhood, my sailboat has virtually no electronics. The […]
Standards – II
George Dinwiddie has a great response to my previous post on standards. In his post, George says: Why do people want to choose a standard before they’ve tried something to […]
Standards?
To paraphrase Tom DeMarco, I am all in favor of product standards. After all, Product standards are the reason that I can buy a Double-A battery from any manufacturer, plug […]
An Actual Job Description I saw today –
For a senior programmer/analyst type … Must possess a strong understanding of software engineering principles including data normalization, structured programming, and software development life cycles. How about this: Must understand, […]
Housekeeping
I’ve had a couple (two) of spambot like comments posted to the blog in the past week. If it continues, I may have to turn off anonymous posting, or turn […]
Agile Metrics – II
I’ve been having an off-line discussion with Jared Quinert that follows-up my post on Agile Metrics. Specifically, he noticed that I refer to the state a project is in to […]