Tag Archives: Software engineering
Webinar: The Business Driven Software Development
Net Objectives conducts a series of webinars on Business Driven Software Development:
This series provides an introduction on how to achieve Business Agility. Business Agility enables an organization to respond quickly to external forces (such as new market opportunities and competitive forces) as well as to respond quickly to new insights attained internally. While many organizations [...]
Zooming in on a design
Have you ever worked with, maintained, explored a system which looked and felt really great in one area, but was really awkward and clumsy in another one? That was an instance of an elephant on the crutches.
This often happens, when design specification was not consistent in the level of detail for different parts of the [...]
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?
Can you commit to release date 323 days from now?
Toy Story 3. Release date: June 18, 2010. 323 days from now.
Does not that amaze you? No? Most likely you are not a Project Manager. And certainly not a software Project Manager.
In software world we know how hard estimation is. And to date I have not met a Project Manager, who would commit to a [...]
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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What is a solution?
I love the definition of solution from old good MSF 3.0:
Solution is the coordinated delivery of the elements needed (such as technologies, documentation, training, and support) to successfully respond to a unique customer’s business problem.
There several things in this definition that appeal to me:
It clearly separates solution, developed with specific customer in mind, from product [...]
Software quality as a practical metric
All of that started with Twitter…
I created an account on Twitter. My way to Twitter was quite long and there were, I guess, 3 major factors that made me do that: changes in my professional life, Bob Walsh’s comments about Twitter and Hanselminutes episode about WPF Twitter client blu. In my 2 or 3 days [...]
Predictability over… everything
Many years ago when I was at school I was serious about orienting. Once I even was 3rd in national championship. And the trainer always told us “Stability is a sign of mastery”. No matter how fast you are on the training you’ve got to be able to repeat this result in real competitions [...]
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