One of the most fascinating documents I’ve read to date is the memo from Roger Boisjoly on O-Ring Erosion. The original target audience for this memo he’d written were the management folks of Morton Thiokol back in 1985, about six months before the Challenger disaster. What I find so striking about this whole story is […]
Read MoreI always find it rather interesting when academics try to quantify generalized metrics about software development. Things like: per lines of code, there will be X number of bugs. Statements like: it has been empirically proven that “blah” affects the development of software in some way “blah.” These are all interesting thoughts, but software development […]
Read MoreI have to admit, I love rules. They go against my nature to the core, but they are some of the most valuable institutions I put into my life, both personally and professionally. Rules are all around us. We follow so many of them each day and don?t even recognize how valuable they are, because […]
Read MoreDan North has provided tremendous benefit to our profession and in the brief conversations I have had with him has proven to be an affable guy. I was a bit taken aback when I read his recent post: Programming is not a Craft. Dan?s sentiments are not unique. I have heard similar opinions from other […]
Read MoreI?ve been working for an enterprise corporation for 5+ years, which I?m going to be leaving soon. This organization is suffering from a wide-spread malady called ?meetingitis?. This phenomenon bothers me from time to time, especially when I?m being pulled in those pointless meetings, wandering about the same thing over and over again without coming […]
Read MoreA while ago, my good friend Michel Grootjans tweeted the following: Are developers (a) laborers or (b) professionals? If (a) don’t expect them to think. If (b) don’t expect them to execute without question. Personally, these few sentences struck a nerve or two. Read it a couple of times and think about this statement for a […]
Read MoreDo you ever get the feeling that you just want to get a cabin in the woods and never see a computer again? Do you ever feel like someone stole your motivation and sapped your energy like a mosquito in a bug zapper? I used to think it just happened to me. The first time […]
Read MoreHave you ever stopped to think about the industry you have choose to work in (I’m bluntly assuming that if you are reading this you are working in the software industry in some way)? I would call it one of the most complex industries in the world. Think about it. We are working in an […]
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