A manager once observed to some of us that many people’s goal is to be the second-to-last person to arrive at a meeting. Being the last makes you the person who is holding everybody else […]
Meeting Misery
Category: Development Process
Issues with the software development process and how it can be improved
What’s agile about Agile?
Programmers are all too well aware that fixing one problem is all too likely to create even more, leading to a reluctance to make changes that aren’t actually necessary. This found its way into a […]
Change is Hard
When facing a new situation, we have a very strong tendency to retreat to what we know, and convince ourselves that the approaches we have used in the past will always work in the future. […]
Dumb Key System
The first thing you have to do for any new system is decide on its requirements. That’s a lot of fun, as you imagine all of the wonderful things your system will do that the […]