I find it useful to draw a contrast between two different organizational development styles: "process-oriented" and "commitment-oriented" development...
So what can you do? Step one is focusing on your customer. They often don’t know what they want, which is fine. Sit down, listen to them, and I mean listen.
If you have an idea for a new feature in the morning, you can write it and push it to the production servers before lunch. And when you can do that, you have more ideas.
Joel on SW article, one argument is quite useful regarding the ongoing outsourcing discussion. Anyway, the most funny thing is, that Mozart did NOT write the whole Requiem, only Inroitus and Kyrie, the rest is Eybler and Süßmayr.
Very interesting article, seems to be an extract of the author's book on rapid sw development from 1996 (sic). Many points (especially #4 e.g.) look quite familiar to me.
Joel on Software is a webpage of a NY sw developer, Joel Spolsky, which also has partially published in print. This page is the archive page with all the articles.
"Relying on CVS and Subversion [...] with access controls limited to the select few committers makes it very difficult for those on the fringes to get more involved."
openArchitectureWare (oAW) is a modular MDA/MDD generator framework implemented in Java(TM). It supports parsing of arbitrary models, and a language family to check and transform models as well as generate code based on them. Supporting editors are based on the Eclipse platform. OAW has strong support for EMF (Eclipse Modelling Framework) based models but can work with other models, too (e.g. UML2, XML or simple JavaBeans) At the core there is a workflow engine allowing the definition of generator/transformation workflows. A number of prebuilt workflow components can be used for reading and instantiating models, checking them for constraint violations, transforming them into other models and then finally, for generating code.
the most effective learning situation is one where a small number of apprentices work alongside an even smaller number of journeyman, who are receiving guidance from a master craftsman
"Google can be considered a fusion of the startup and grad-school mentalities ... It's all been done before; the only thing that's really surprising is that Google has managed to make it scale."
Towards understanding the complex interplay of software tools, human behaviour and social structures in order to enhance the development and use of software tools.
We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of...Programming, Motherfucker.
We are tired of being told we're autistic idiots who need to be manipulated to work in a Forced Pair Programming chain gang without any time to be creative because none of the 10 managers on the project can do...Programming, Motherfucker.