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Essays from April 2006

4 essays from April 2006

1. 01

   Why do people spend so much time criticizing each other?

   In this blog and others in the software community we try to learn from our experiences by expressing them in writing for others to read. I have a pragmatic approach to software development. I try new ideas, give them a fair shot if I believe they could work and then assess if they did work …

   27 April 20061 min read

2. 02

   99 rules too many…

   Boy do the NASA project managers have it hard. Not only are in they under pressure from government and private entrepreneurs (remember the X-prize?) now they also have to memorize 100 rules! That’s what I would say 99-rules too many! I have only one rule:1- Use your head! OK, ok, that’s a simplistic way to …

   16 April 20061 min read

3. 03

   On Agile management

   This week I came across two interesting articles about agile management (related to software of course ;). One is from Joel Spolsky, it’s called “The Development Abstraction Layer” and talks about the need for good management to enable the work of productive and creative software developers. The second article comes from CNN and is about …

   15 April 20061 min read

4. 04

   Writing the right documents

   Here at our company we hear everyday amazing and interesting things. Once someone said “Let’s move these documents to wiki” – they were talking about a few of the dozen or more documents in one particular project. When asked why, they replied: “Because we want to ‘maintain’ these documents”. Hum… If that is the case …

   15 April 20064 min read

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