I got varying reactions on my last post. Some thought the story about making coffee using an extremely detailed plan was funny. For example Fabio Akita wrote: “Planning is the death of any project” http://bit.ly/bFYkAW Just an entertainment story, but fun nonetheless I’m certainly proud to produce something that is considered fun. Yet my little [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]