Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The Yacht Metaphor for Software Organizations

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I’m big on metaphors, and I’ve always loved Joel Spolsky’s software-organization-as-yacht metaphor: Think of your development abstract...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

“That’s Easy. You Just…”

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On a recent Hacker News submission about the phenomenal success of WhatsApp , I clicked through to the comments thread, and read the top com...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Backlog Prioritization Affects Developer Morale

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If you read Scrum literature, you may get the idea that the Product Owner is a kind of dictator of the product backlog, in that he or she un...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

If You Don’t Buy the Philosophy, Don’t Bother with the Practices

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I used to roll my eyes when proponents of a certain methodology, when confronted with failures of projects using that methodology, would say...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

The Library and the Bazaar

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In Christopher Alexander’s discussion of his Workspace Enclosure pattern, he mentions this interesting concept: You should not be able...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Technicians Get No Respect

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I believe one of the fastest ways we developers can lose the respect of so-called “business people” is to behave like technicians . Wha...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Are Software Developers Respected by “Business People”?

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In the Hacker News thread for my last blog post , there were a couple of comments that really got me thinking about the role respect plays ...
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