Improving the world with software

Essays from April 2009

3 essays from April 2009

1. 01

   Does Toyota really use waterfall for software development?

   I saw this post and could not resist leaving a comment. Here’s what I wrote as a comment to that post: How can they [Toyota] apply waterfall and be predictive, fast and high-quality? Those are all qualities that waterfall lacks. Predictability is lost because of lack of visibility into quality until it is too late …

   26 April 20091 min readcode

2. 02

   Marketing fail redux, the Agile Process edition

   I was reading a web-site from a “well know” process person/company in the software field (which will remain unnamed) and found the following quote (names changed to protect the guilty): XYZ corporation senior management decided that ABC Unified Process is the way for better quality, higher productivity and lower cost. I can’t begin to describe …

   21 April 20091 min readteams

3. 03

   The curious case of buttoned-up Benjamin

   Benjamin works in a consulting company where there was no dress-code unless the client would have a dress-code. Since most consultants were testers and coders (and you know how we dress) the clients understood not to demand a formal dress code. Then Benjamin’s company changed his boss. The new boss required and insisted on everyone …

   3 April 20092 min readteams

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