Contents tagged with General Software Development
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How to delete bugs in Bugzilla
Good description of the trick to delete bugs in Bugzilla.
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Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
Tom DeMarco, arguably one of the key thinkers when it comes to how we develop software has been reflecting.
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12 Learnings From My First Turn As Startup CEO
Jason Goldberg has a great post on some of the things he learned while CEO of Jobster.com.
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Ten Reasons High-Tech Companies Fail
Planning on starting your own company? Here are some good points to consider from High Tech Strategies - Ten Reasons High-Tech Companies Fail
- Lack of Market Focus
- Excessive Pace of Product Improvement
- Incomplete Products
- Undifferentiated Products
- Channel Mismanagement
- Failure to Establish the Right Competitive Barriers
- Using Price Alone To Drive Market Transformation
- Improper Use of Advertising
- Misinterpretation of the Technology Adoption Lifecycle Model
- Irrelevant Market Research
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Production vs. Attendance on Teams
Jeffrey Phillips wrote a nice post on Accountable for production not attendance. In it he argues that most knowledge workers should be treated like virtual workers – they should be held accountable for their production, not their attendance. The implication is that the results of the work is far more important than when or where they work. This is something I have given a great deal of thought to and agree with in principle. However, the focus here is on the individual. What if the individual works on a team?
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Expedited Stories
I mentioned in my No More Iterations post that we didn't really know how support requests were going to affect the overall system. As is often the case I didn't have to wait long to find out.
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$1,000 of Free Consulting Advice
One of my staff (Aaron) found this great post from David Bock called the 7 Question Project Health Check.
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30 Second Estimating
After reading posts by David Anderson and Amit Rathore I started to examine why we were estimating, how much time we were spending at it, the psychic cost, and the results. The results were not encouraging.
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It's okay to THINK for Yourself
I can't really add anything to Geoff's post. Go read it and apply it.
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Jim Highsmith on the Chaos reports
Max Wideman got permission to reprint Jim Highsmith's article The Chaos Report - Reality Challenged.