JavaZone 2010 promotional video
Published June 25th, 2010 Under Humour | Leave a Comment
The very very very funny story of a young Java developer growing up in a .NET family.
http://jz10.java.no/java-4-ever-trailer.html
Should Developers Come Only from Mars but Project Managers from Venus?
Published June 23rd, 2009 Under Humour, Methods & Tools, Software Development | 1 Comment
Once upon a time was the “software crisis” that persuaded people to “engineer” software in a 1968 NATO conference. Methods were created to structure the requirements and the software development process. They use models to define more precisely the requirements and the target system. They had a top-down approach that was aimed at increasing management control on projects. The object oriented revolution changed the perspective of the models with the subsequent creation of the UML, but not the industrial vision of the software development process. In 2001, 17 people signed an agile manifesto that tried to push back the balance more on the “people” side. Two of the main value preferences of the manifesto (“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”) are explicitly focused on people and their relationships. Read more
Agile Advert Is Back for Agile 2008
Published June 27th, 2008 Under Conferences, Humour | Leave a Comment
There is only a month for you to create your best (read: funniest/ most creative) video representing your experience with or just promoting enthusiasm for Agile development. Make sure to check out last year’s videos.
Learn more and upload here: http://www.agileadvert.org
The Toilet Paper Theory Applied To Software Development
Published January 7th, 2008 Under Humour, Software Development | 4 Comments
There are many configurations for developers to work together, but one of the common things that you will share with your colleagues is the toilet. Visiting the lavatories is also something that you will most likely to do every day. You could think of this as an intimate and mandatory version of the continuous integration paradigm. The toilet paper is one of the essential and ephemeral resources for this activity. Benjamin Franklin is quoted to have said “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” I would personally add a third thing: toilet paper rolls reaching the end of their existence. What follows this event could give you an interesting view on the culture of the hosting organization and how its developers are working. Read more
The Waterfall Manifesto for Realistic Software Development
Published July 26th, 2007 Under Humour, Software Development | Leave a Comment
After participating to and observing many software development projects in recent years, we have reached the sad conclusion that there will never be better ways of developing software on this planet. While the principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development may look appealing for inexperienced developers, serious professionals know that the real world is not similar to the “Little House on the Prairie”
This is the begining of the story told in The Waterfall Manifesto for Realistic Software Development, an humourous mirror site to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
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