Improving the world with software

Essays from 2008, page 6

63 essays from 2008

1. 16

   Nokia is missing the bus, why the N96 is not good enough

   Disruptive technologies don’t always come with revolutionary new technology or feature-packed packages. And this is no different with the iPhone/Nokia debate going on today after Nokia failed to impress with the announcement of the N96 multimedia phone. The fact is that Nokia is missing the bigger point and the proverbial bus. One year after the …

   12 February 20082 min readcode

2. 17

   Understanding schedule and scope in Agile projects.

   Here is an example of something that the software world needs to improve. In his blog post from January 4th, James shore talks about software project estimation. He describes a waterfall project with 4 milestones and asks the reader to guess how much that software will be late based on the information he gives. Here’s …

   13 January 20085 min read

3. 18

   Use your brain (not tools to replace it!)

   Here’s a good post about a tendency that I’ve seen several times repeated in the Software development industry. The point in the article is short and sweet: if you are doing TDD you should write your tests yourself. Don’t use tools to generate tests for you unless you understand exactly why and what the savings/efficiency …

   11 January 20081 min read

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