Software Best Practices

But does the "to-be" nature of requirements make them fundamentally different than the "should-have" nature of a defect? In common, though, is the demand for team time. That is, both the defect and the requirement are a request to have the team spend time modifying the work to behave...

In my last post I spoke about how some moron is going to cause you to go Arrrgg! by doing something stupid with your product. Unfortunately, that appears to be a fundamental truth. I have been pondering why some moron does the stupid thing when Steve McConnell's inaugural post lead me to another...

There seems to be a third thing certain in life besides death and taxes. That thing seems to be the fact that the moment some moron uses the product or software that I have been working on, they are going to do something stupid. My brilliant work of pristine intellectual purity which functions just the...