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By bfwebster on Jul 7, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, talking about the challenges of a geographically-distributed software development project. Take a look. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Jun 23, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls, PMSE, Recruiting | 0 Comments
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] Categories: managerial Various industry studies cite the productivity gap between the best and the worst developers. While there is some controversy over the ranges often cited (such as the famous 26:1 figure), anyone who has managed a diverse group of developers won’t argue with [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 23, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Management, Metrics, Pitfalls, PMSE | 0 Comments
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] Categories: managerial That which gets measured gets accomplished or, at least, evaluated. That’s why various software metrics are used as an indication of progress and accomplishment. The best known and easiest to compute is lines of code (LOC), usually measured as thousands of lines [...]
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 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 [...]