About Estimating

One of the most difficult tasks in software development is estimating also known as guessing. Here are a couple of thoughts about the topic. Estimates aren’t Commitments. At least they shouldn’t. Lets assume you estimate you need 1 hour from your home to the airport, through all formalities and into the plane. Do you leave [...]

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Essential Stories for any Enterprise Application Product Backlog

Most of the customers I work with are huge companies. When trying to get an application accepted in such an environment some are a real no brainer. Like Websphere Application Server. While others like Jira are really hard to get some resources for. I couldn’t help wondering, what the reasons are for this. Let’s face [...]

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It’s not in the Genes its in the Environment

A late comparision of Ruby on Rails with Open Xava demonstrates that you can develop Java based applications fast. This lead another blogger to the conclusiong that java developers do love complicated architectures. I think this view ia a little to simplistic. Java developers like fast results and progress just as all the other developers. [...]

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