Monday, August 23, 2021

Rotate People Through Product Assurance

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  In many organizations, people are moved into product assurance teams as a first assignment or after they have demonstrated poo...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The Sieve of Eratosthenes

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Eratosthenes Tonight I have been thinking about applications of the principle of inclusion-exclusion. The gist of it is how to ...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Establish Software Management Procedures Early

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 Effective software management is not just having a tool that records who made what change to the code or documentation. It is a...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Product Assurance Is Not a Luxury

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  Product assurance includes: software configuration management software quality assurance verification and validation testing Of...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Do a Project Postmortem

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At the end of every project, give all the key project members a three or four day assignment to analyze every problem that occur...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

The Thought That Disaster Is Impossible Often Leads To Disaster

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Gerald Weinberg's "Titanic Effect" principle is that believing that disaster is impossible often leads to disaster....
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Manage by Variance

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  It is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a project without a detailed plan. Once you have a plan, update it as necessary. ...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Miraculous Productivity Increases

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The technology industry is saturated with people who preach that this tool or that technique will reduce development cost. We al...
Monday, December 14, 2020

What Version of Java Compiled This

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I try to use the latest stable version of Java/JDK when I can. There are a lot of performance improvements in newer versions o...
Friday, November 13, 2020

The Method Won't Save You

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We have all heard the preaching of "method zealots" who say, "If you just adopt my method, most of ...