12 March 2007 21:45
You're Fired… ever have one of those days?
You just spent 48 hours straight updating the team portal, finishing up your Software Architecture Description by polishing up the views and their supporting documentation, updating the project plan, printing everything into nice little packages, and getting the bugs out of the proof of concept and then ...
The Programmer from Hades
In my career I have come across a lot of different types of people. The programmer that blew through my life a few months ago left a trail of destruction in his path that I have been trying to clean up for the past 2 months and will be cleaning up for the next year, and he accomplished 90% of it in his first 4 weeks here.
12 March 2007 21:30
Thinking Software Development Process Implementation is Free means the Blind are Leading the Blind, but there are Ruby Slippers that may Help.
What makes people think a Software Development Process can be implemented in an organization at no upfront cost (including time and money)? Of course the number one culprit is lack of experience. The inexperienced have no understanding of what is involved in process engineering, and they usually have the belief that process is a luxurious overhead that is only to be thought about when there is complete downtime or during hours above billable hours.
