Software development quotes
In his book “Succeeding with Agile”, Mike Cohn present nine questions that you should ask for a current or proposed team. Questions should be asked iteratively… until you answer “yes” to each. Here are the questions: * Does the structure accentuate the strengths, shore up the weaknesses, and support the …
I have just started reading the book “Succeeding with Agile” by Mike Cohn. Here are some quotes from the initial pages that deal with the difficulties of transitioning to Agile. “I’ve personally witnessed several failed agile adoptions that could have been prevented. The first was in a company that had …
I have just finished reading the great book “Leading Lean Software Development” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and I wanted to share with you two quotes excerpted from it. […] I started a conversation with the question that had been bothering me: “How do you reconcile the lean view that …
I am currently reading the excellent “Debug It!” book written by Paul Butcher and I wanted to share with you some of the little gems that I have found in it. “Bug fixing often uncovers opportunities for refactoring. The very fact that you’re working with code that contains a bug …
“In the early days of our industry, programmers wrote in assembly code, selecting registers in which to place variables and managing memory explicitly. If we had magically provided these programmers with a Smalltalk compiler, they might have asked, “How does this help us select registers? How do we allocate memory?” …
The end of the year is a time where you do some cleaning. During this activity, I found an old issue of IEEE Software where I had noticed an article as a source of interesting software development quotes about people issue. As New Year is also the time to take …
