Kelly Waters gives 3 scenarios where Agile Software Development does not work. One factor that is often ignored while diving into agile is the team structure. Companies like to have hierarchical team structures, where few good ones can get work done with many average ones. [Continue]
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Centralized And Distributed VCS
Andy Singleton has point when he says that Subversion still has its place. Or that centralized VCSs are not losing against the distributed VCSs. While I agree that Subversion is not going to fade away, I wonder if the ease of use is the best argument for it. [Continue]
Some More On IT Project Failures
Matt Assay points to a study which says that 62% of IT projects fail. The study cites two primary reasons: Managers do not consider the time and effort required to transfer of the know-how from designers to developers. QA is not given enough importance, and hence time. [Continue]
Communication And Consensus
ocean has a radical perspective about what software development is, and a good one too. … Given all this commuication going on it may be that creating software is actually a communication exercise. The goal of this communication exercise isn’t to create code — or anything else. [Continue]
Measuring Distance In Time
Mumbai is probably the only city where the distance is measured in time. If you ask, “How far is Andheri (a suburb) from Borivali (another suburb)?”, you will usually get answers like 45 mins or 1.5 hrs. Sounds absurd. [Continue]
Alan Cox On Open Source Projects
Matt Assay points to Alan Cox’s talk – Dear Mr. Brooks, or: Software engineering in the free software world. There are not many talks that are informative and equally entertaining to engage you through their entire length. [Continue]
Musing About Testing Design
We do test a lot of our code to make sure that the software behaves as it intends to. But do we test our designs? A sturdy design can instill confidence in the team, much before we try to see the output or the results. [Continue]
What Is Performance?
A significant term that comes up everywhere in the software world, yet is open for interpretation for everyone. The danger is when you and your client end up with a difference. It is critical to define what is meant by loose terms like good performance when software development is being discussed. [Continue]
What Kind Of Work Do I Like To Do?
I have been asked this question by different people at different times, enough to write about it here. Not necessarily as an answer, but to build my own thoughts about it, because I do not have a crisp and to-the-point answer. Many times the intent is to find out about my favorite technologies or programming languages or environments. [Continue]
Why Is Software Hard?
Kyle Wilson attempts to answer that, and amazingly brings up factors that are not usually discussed. Software development, by itself, is complex because there are always unknown factors, and we are still not capable of anticipating all of them. But a software project can easily turn into an abysmal hole where we keep doing things. [Continue]
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