What are the major sources of wasted effort? How can you be more efficient and less frustrated?
An opinion column for developers. Brutally honest, no pulled punches.
What are the major sources of wasted effort? How can you be more efficient and less frustrated?
What makes a good code question? How do you get recruiters to setup loops quickly?
Isnt testing a job for testers? If devs write unit tests, whats left for testers?
What makes a meeting intolerable? How do you run an effective meeting?
How much design is actually necessary? Whats the simplest way to a complete design without any muss or fuss?
What is engineering and can it be applied to software? What contributes to software quality?
In what limited ways are metrics useful? What makes a great developer?
Can cross-group work work? What happens when yelling louder fails?
Why change our quality bar now? What does it take to ship a quality product?
How do you avoid getting shafted by a lame feature assignment? What do you do to get an unfair advantage?