Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Control Baselines

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It is the responsibility of software configuration management (SCM) to hold the agreed-upon specifications and regulate change...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Independence Hall

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Where America started... Construction on the Pennsylvania State Hou...
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...