Delegation of power to programmers is a smart idea. It is provably and measurably smarter than leaving the power with managers to design the developer’s work environment, and with IT architects to design the technology that we should program.
Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about Agile retrospectives, software architecture, software developer psychology, software testing in Agile teams, quality code and the (funny) history of programming.
Research has shown that the presumption of selfishness is true for maybe 30% of most populations; another 50% are reliably unselfish, and the remaining 20% could go either way, depending on the context. If a company presumes that the undecided 20% are selfish, you can bet they will be selfish—it’s …
Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Summer 2014 issue that discusses objections to Kanban implementation, How to use a model to evaluate and improve mobile user experience, balancing a software development job and a meaningful life, Scrum …
In their seminal book Peopleware, Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister wrote “The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature.” Computer science curriculum are full of courses about how to code sorting algorithms or how to write a compiler, but most of us never …
So instead of looking for ways to make team formation possible, we began to think of ways to make it impossible. That was easy. In no time at all, we came up with lots of surefire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken …
