For a while I've been thinking about what makes me like or dislike a project. Having spent a very big part of my career working for consultancy companies, I...
5 replies - 5653 views - 02/12/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
It's Better to Have Someone Else Copyedit Text, and It's Better to Have Others Test Your Code
Andrew Wulf shares wisdom about testing - it's not...
0 replies - 3215 views - 02/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
A Bookmarklet to Switch Your Backgrounds at Will I'm giving this bookmarklet my 'tool of the week' honors. Not that I've really made a trend out...
0 replies - 4174 views - 02/05/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Some people argue that organizations should get rid of their bonus systems. They say most of an organization’s performance is in the system, not in the...
0 replies - 1507 views - 02/05/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
NEWS
Apple Blocks Java on Mac
Looks like Apple has blocked Java for the 2nd time this year, and it's only been a month! This time they're...
0 replies - 2867 views - 02/04/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
A practice that has infiltrated the western business world like a pestilence in a shanty town is the annual bonus system. The idea of this practice is that...
2 replies - 5332 views - 02/03/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
I have called this piece: Can’t Change, Won’t Change. It is about what I found in recent years working in the financial services industry, in particular...
8 replies - 2905 views - 02/01/13 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles
When it comes to discovering the best way to develop software or deciding what to build you will be hard pressed to find any certainty. We tend to work with...
0 replies - 1423 views - 01/31/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
TL;DR: To all those who dissented, you're right, but you're wrong. Craftsmanship is a noble meme, when it's something that somebody holds as a personal goal,...
0 replies - 3284 views - 01/29/13 by Ted Neward in Articles
I have a big mouth. The kind that doesn’t shut up, especially when it needs to.
I thought this was a development in my adult life. Alas, no. Recently I...
2 replies - 4154 views - 01/29/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
Pick a Name for the 2014 Eclipse Release
The Eclipse foundation will once again go to its developer community for the decision on naming next year's Eclipse...
0 replies - 3440 views - 01/29/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
A Snapshot of Today's Dev Community - Stack Overflow Stats from 2012
Some stats from last year's Stack Overflow user commmunity. Here are the most...
0 replies - 3911 views - 01/28/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
One of the most popular reports people use to showcase failure of software development is the Standish’s chaos report.
In 1994, Standish reported a...
0 replies - 2032 views - 01/26/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles
Please tell us, what is your maturity level, as a person? Are you still at level 1 or 2? Or do you belong to the elite group of people who have achieved level...
0 replies - 2121 views - 01/25/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
The topic of business value is a complex one and it’s easy to get mired in the morass of calculating ROI or in trying to define what intangibles are relevant...
0 replies - 1198 views - 01/24/13 by Jim Highsmith in Articles
