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Essays from March 2009

2 essays from March 2009

  1. The Software quality hash tag #swquality

    If you do Twitter you probably know exactly what I’m referring to, if you don’t here’s an article you should read. Together with @most_alive and @Mendelt we just coined a hash tag to aggregate discussions about the cost of quality in software development. The hash tag is #swquality just add that to every tweet that …

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  2. Perfection in software is cheaper! not more expensive…

    The fallacy of perfection = expensive has many forms. Two of which I just run into in the blogosphere. What is this fallacy? Simple, you say to yourself: “perfection in software development is way to expensive, therefore I should not even try to achieve it!”, but that’s a false problem, because perfection is only expensive …

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