In order to become better at selling “doing the right thing” to management, I think we need hard evidence. Therefore, I’m very curious what would happen if you put a really good researcher on digging through the version control system for your product. Combined with bug trackers, continuous integration systems, and other [...]
Great quote from Kent Beck at SDC2010. Multitasking doesn’t work, but it would be so nice if it did that we try anyway. That’s about the best summary of (human) multitasking I’ve heard. This picture is pretty good too, though.
At a lunch recently, I talked with some architects/developers who were a bit concerned about a decision made by the managers and (powerpoint-)architects at their company. The company had decided to go with a middle-ware/database solution from a vendor which I will allow to remain anonymous (let’s just say it’s a very large company who [...]
This post is a response to Jeff Atwood’s post/question on Should Competent Programmers be "Mathematically Inclined"?. I originally intended to just comment that piece, but the sheer amount of comments made me realize that no-one would actually read it anyway. So I might as well write a response in my own blog which about as [...]
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I have realized that some people are smarter than I am. It is a painful realization but I just can’t ignore the evidence any longer. Allow me to explain. I often get inspiration to write posts from reading books or blogs by really smart people. Thus, I often refer to people who are smarter than [...]