Saturday, April 04, 2020

Believe in the Schedule

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Probability of Project Success Once a feasible schedule is established and appropriate resources allocated, all parties must believe the...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Know Before You Count

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"Know before you count" is a software development management principle simply stated by Gerald Weinberg as, "Before you ca...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Avoid The Impossible

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This may seem like obvious advice. One the other hand, many projects commit to delivering their product on schedules that are 100 percent i...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Software Cost Estimation Methods

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Numerous cost estimation methods are available commercially. Each is based on data collected from a large set of completed projects. Any ...
Friday, March 06, 2020

Enneagram Test

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A year ago I took an online Enneagram test. My top two personality types were: The Achiever The Perfectionist Is it all mumbo-jumbo?...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Collect Data Unobtrusively

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Data collection is extremely important to help with future cost predictions, to assess the current state of a project or organization, to as...
Friday, February 28, 2020

You Can Optimize Whatever You Want

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Any project can optimize whatever factor of "quality" it wants to. In optimizing any one factor, other "quality" factors...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Winter Reading Challenge

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My local library is running a winter reading challenge. The challenge is to read five books that meet the following criteria between January...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Ghost Map

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johns...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Huge Differences Among Software Engineers

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Productivity (measured by lines of code per person-month) can vary by as much as a factor of 25 from the most to the least prolific coder...