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Katie Reads: Peopleware and Bringing Back the Chaos 30 May 2009 | 12:30 am
This is an occasional series in which I cover a small aspect of a book that currently has my attention. It's not intended as a review, but perhaps a morsel that might get people to read some of the gr...
How do I track requirements? 28 May 2009 | 12:30 am
One of the questions I get via Twitter and comments is how do I track requirements. When I came into a job that had gathering requirements as a part of its duties, I got the duties without any sort of...
UI's - Full Circles 23 May 2009 | 12:29 am
Note: I'm utterly swamped, so doing a repost of an article I wrote a while back that I've always been fond of. Here's to hoping next week is calmer! In the beginning, there was the command line, and ...
A la carte development cycles 21 May 2009 | 12:20 am
When people ask what kind of shop we are, I usually answer for the Python group. We're an agile shop in a waterfall environment. However, that isn't true throughout the contract I'm on. Some of us are...
One girl + two cups, and some UML 19 May 2009 | 12:30 am
I love UML. No, I mean I really LOVE UML. The first thing I put on a new laptop is ArgoUML. I first learned it when I was picking up Plone, but since then have found it invaluable for gathering requi...
import geek 16 May 2009 | 12:30 am
Okay, I've given you three weeks to get a girl, and even gave you a guide extolling your virtues that you could hand out. Everyone have a girl by now? Good. There's one problem, though. Some of thos...
Katie's Awesome Idea 14 May 2009 | 12:30 am
I... had an awesome idea. I sort of hate it when I have awesome ideas, because they're almost always for something that I simply don't want to do. I have little desire to run my own business. I have ...
Developers: What your System Admins want you to know 12 May 2009 | 12:30 am
Okay, I gave the designers their say: now it's time for the system admins. I wandered in to the gritty depths of NASA HQ, seeking out the agency's most battle-scarred warriors: the Unix team. These fe...
Steps one, three, five, and twelve 9 May 2009 | 12:30 am
Something I say quite a bit when looking over a developer's documentation is that developers leave out steps one, three, five, and twelve when writing out directions. It's epidemic, and the reason I d...
Are you in ticket hell? 7 May 2009 | 12:30 am
There's one downside to Agile development: eventually, you end up in Ticket Hell. How do you know you're in Ticket Hell? You don't come in one day and think, "Gosh, who's microwaving brimstone at thi...
