Why Your Manager Doesn’t Like To Throw Away Work (And You Do)
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Awhile back, I read two very good blog posts both talking about technical debt and passionately treating it as a sunken cost. The 1-2 punch of these articles made me much more aware of the long term effects that “rotten” software can cause.
The majority of the time it is management that has a tough […]
Whiteboard Wednesday: The ROI of Testing
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Are Developers Secret Santas Of The Information Age?
Filed Under Thought Stuff | 8 Comments
During this last holiday season, I read numerous new articles about ‘Secret Santas’ covertly donating thousands of dollars into bell ringers’ kettles. Always associating things with software, I instantly related it to my previous post about the selflessness of OSS developers. Just like ‘Secret Santas’, the more I am aware of their activity, the […]
How Your Socks Can Determine Software Lifespan
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This will inevitability go down in history as the worst analogy ever but here we go:
The lifespan of your software is directly proportional to the lifespan of a pair of socks. - Max Pool
Both socks and software go through a strict 3 phase lifecycle:
Phase 1 - Brand New
Let me tell you first hand, […]
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