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By bfwebster on Oct 5, 2011 in Books, Intellectual property, Main, Technology | 0 Comments
The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 23, 2008 in Books, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls, PMSE | 0 Comments
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] Categories: managerial Self delusion and group delusion are all too common in software development projects. Several factors combine to bring this about. One is the natural optimism prevalent among software engineers, particularly when they are not allowed, encouraged, or required to spend sufficient time [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 9, 2008 in Books, Main, Management, Methodology, Pitfalls, PMSE, Quality assurance | 1 Comment
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] Categories: managerial This is a classic pitfall in software engineering. Typically, insufficient time is allocated for the problem specification, research, design, architecture, and review that should occur before coding and during each development cycle. Likewise, software quality assurance (SQA) is often given little time, [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 5, 2008 in Articles, Books, Main, Writing | 0 Comments
I’ve been working for some time on a book called Surviving Complexity. Many of my posts over at brucefwebster.com have adapted from materials I’m writing for that book. Well, now I’ve been hired by Ziff Davis Enterprises to write a weekly column on IT Management for the online version of Baseline. That column is titled [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 3, 2008 in Books, Change management, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Methodology, Pitfalls, PMSE, Software engineering, Technology | 0 Comments
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] Categories: managerial The impulse to constantly add new and incremental features to a software program certainly isn’t unique to modern software develoment, or to a particular technology or methodology. It derives largely from three sources. Upper management and marketing want, and sometimes need, those [...]