Software Best Practices

Our profession spends an amazing amount of energy year after year reinventing how we create software. While looking at a thread about Agile principles on an enjoyable blog ( NOOP.NL ), it struck me for umpteenth time how mastering effective software development practices feels like riding a merry-go...

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A comment I'm hearing with increasing frequency is "The job market is getting to be like the dot com era all over again. Developer salaries are increasing, and it's getting harder and harder to attract and retain good developers." Our May ECSE Meeting focused on the topic of "Compensation...

Have you maintained software whose code bears little resemblance to its design docs and comments? How many times have you seen a detailed and diligently maintained schedule, which is regularly presented to management with lots of green and red highlighting, but which no one in the trenches thinks has...

Well, maybe not all of them. Some are so pretty, that uniform cascading of well ordered tasks trickling downhill to perfectly coincide with the deadline. Get color prints made, frame them, and hang them as abstract art. Don’t use them to manage your software development. Balance is an important part...

I've been reluctant to start a blog because the things I would blog about are just not the things that I would normally write about. Sometimes I joke that I have a long attention span. Most people's issue is that they can't focus for a long time; they're easily distracted and can't...