Published at: 10:03 am - Sunday March 28 2010
Are you able to make a pot of coffee? I guess you are. At least until you try to plan it. Here is the first version of a plan to make coffee: put a filter in the coffee machine put coffee in the filter put water in the coffee machine switch the coffee machine on [...]
Published at: 11:02 pm - Sunday February 28 2010
Many developers try to get into (project)management. That is ok I guess. But what bothers me is, that many developers do that without actually wanting to be managers. It’s just that they want to make some progress and the only career option available is to get into management and manage larger and larger teams, or [...]
Published at: 02:01 pm - Sunday January 17 2010
One of the most difficult tasks in a software development project is estimating the size of the project. Unfortunatly very often you have to do it at the very beginning of a project, when you have the least information. The result at the end is very often a large difference between the original estimate and [...]