Software Development is More About People Than Technology
The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature.
Software development quotes
The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature.
There is currently a trend to produce “just enough” documentation in software development. We should however not forgot that what we might estimate “just enough” today when everything is fresh in our mind could transform itself in “not enough” three months later. Here are some quotes about documentation in software …
“If the layered style is the most common targeted style [in software architecture], the big ball of mud style is perhaps the one most often actually achieved. It is characterized by the absence of any evident structure, or perhaps vestiges of now-eroded structure. Also typical is promiscuous sharing of information, …
“In the last decade, the software development community has strived to build software the “right” way, focusing on technical practices and ideas to ensure high-quality results. But building the product right and building the right product are two different things. We need to do both in order to succeed.
I am currently reading the book “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development” by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. This book is full of very interesting material that covers the full spectrum of the software development domain and is the “sequel” of “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and …
Some interesting thoughts borrowed from my notes of the “How to Become an Agile Architect” talk presented yesterday by Uwe Friedrichsen from Codecentric at the Jazoon 2011 conference in Zurich. * Architecture is a set of skills and not a role: if you don’t have these skills available for your …