Archive for September, 2008

Better, not perfect
Sunday, September 28th, 2008

My apartment is not always in perfect condition, and cleaning up that mess isn’t exactly what I look forward to. Therefore, in a discussion with a friend about this subject, I complained about that I couldn’t come up with good rules for myself on how and when to clean. (I like rules — simple, consistent, [...]

Agile (Soon) Considered Harmful?
Sunday, September 21st, 2008

In the nineties, software development was conceptually simple and straight-forward; you gathered requirements for the system, designed it, built it, tested it and deployed it. This was the era of waterfall, [RUP:Rational Unified Process], [UML:Unified Modelling Language], and lots of up-front design. The more details decided in advance, the less costs from changing later, and [...]