Des Traynor writes about how to get valuable feedback from your clients. He writes from a designer perspective, but the key points just as well apply for software developers, not only when talking to customers, but also when doing audits and reviews: Every time in my career that I’ve gotten useless feedback it has always [...]
Possibly the worst idea ever conceived in business is the idea to link payment to key figures. Why? Because it can only work for a single key figure: company profit, assuming that the main purpose of the company in question is to maximize company profit in the long run. If you link that number to [...]
Wait … wasn’t that ‘Keep your tests green’? Of course I agree, if 50% of your tests are red all the time you have a problem. BUT if 100% of the tests are green all the time, then how do you know they can actually detect the errors they are supposed to cover? Simple answer [...]
