Category Archives: Weekend reading

The world is flat (and small)

Several years ago on one presentation I said that world became really small: to any place where you might be interested in visiting on business you can get within 24 hours. Sometimes you do not even need to get there, because world is not only small it is also flat as Thomas Friedman described in his [...]
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Weekend listening: a couple of interesting podcasts

Now when my commute went from 10-20 mins to 30-40 mins in each direction I quickly burned the backlog of podcasts. I gave a try to some new and so far I like what I hear. Here they are: Manager Tools Podcast Software Engineering Radio 37signals Podcast What are some of your favorite podcasts?
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Weekend reading: software complexity

Last weekend we kind of explored the field of software estimation, so it is about time to see, why it is not an easy task. Complexity is what makes estimating hard. Human brain capacity is more or less fixed, but software complexity grows at least as fast as the square of the size of the project – [...]
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Weekend reading: Software projects planning and estimation

Here are some links to interesting stuff on software estimation and projects planning for weekend reading and watching. Your Will Suffer From Power Laws. There are some things, which are the way the are, and you can not change them, even if you want. You can not spit upwind (at least, not with desirable result); you [...]
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