Sharpen Your Axe Before Starting Your Next Project
Filed Under Human Factors, Software Process | 7 Comments
This is a reader guest post by Jeremy Neuharth. Jeremy is a .NET software engineer with State Bank and Trust and enjoys learning and assisting teams in implementing release management and continuous integration.
Abe Lincoln was quoted:
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Despite […]
Squeezed Links: Top 10 of Top 10s
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While in Chicago working, I had a chance to clean out my delicious bookmarks. Here is a Top 10 of Top 10s that I have found:
10 Tips to Ace a Software Development Interview
10 Tips for Accurate Software Estimates
10 Essential Steps To Get To The Top Of Your Field
Top 10 Tips On Version Control for […]
Save Energy - Kill Your Screensaver
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This post is in response to Blog Action Day. This year’s topic is one that is important to everyone - the environment.
Screensavers have been around since the beginning of computing, but the days of CRT burn-in are now far past us. So why do we still keep screensavers around? If […]
90% of Software Engineering is Social Engineering
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The last 50 years has been filled with technological breakthroughs, but we have quietly ignored our superhuman efforts to refine communication. The evolution of how we communicate from RUP to Agile/SCRUM has led us down a path of learning how to be pragmatic communicators; yet we still view ourselves as average developers before recognizing we […]
Codesqueeze - The Musical
Scott Hanselman is now quoted:
I love CodeSqueeze! It’s much better than Cats! I’m going to read it again and again!
Thank you Scott, and as a result I give my adoring fans:
Notice: The author of this blog reserves the right to take any comments or quotes and spin them completely out of context for his […]
Do Managers Prey on Developer Pride?
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It is well known fact that most developers suffer from a disease called egotism. The question I am currently pondering is if managers (either intentional or subconsciously) prey on this sense of pride.
A number of my previous articles seem to all have a reoccurring theme: developer over estimates, manager over commits, developer works […]
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