How To Win Developers and Influence Code Quality
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Lots of marketing students and sales professionals each year are required to read the book How To Win Friends And Influence People and for good reason: the book stands alone as one of the greatest books on sales ever. I decided to co-opt the title of that great book for this entry, because I want [...]
1:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, TechnologyTracking and Fixing Bugs In Software Projects
Monday, January 4th, 2010In software development, it’s crucial to track bugs and new features, and to be able to know exactly where a project is at any given moment. Bug tracking is crucial tot his goal; it allows a project manager to know what has been finished and what still must be done, as well as to outline [...]
1:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, TechnologyPainless Spec and Schedule Development
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009In the time that I have developed software, I don’t know that I’ve ever met a developer who got excited about writing specs for anything. In fact, most developers loathe writing specs, or developing schedules of any kind. It’s not that they’re lazy, or that they don’t want to be held accountable; most of the [...]
1:00 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, Business Management, TechnologyWhy Tracking Bugs In Personal Projects Matters
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009A lot of time and effort goes into designing processes for development projects when the projects are professional or work-related projects. We spend hours investing in version control, bug tracking, specification design, and process.
1:00 am | Comment (11) | Print | Categories: Best Practices, Personal Management, TechnologyData Formatting: It IS Our Job
Monday, December 7th, 2009It’s happened to each and every one of us: we fill out a long form, complete with username and password. We double and triple check everything, because want to make sure the submission works. We verify our email address, our date of birth, and even maybe retype our password, just to make sure they’re both [...]
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