Software Integrity

More on Best Practices & The Dreyfus Model With Dan North

Two of our recent blogs; The Misnomer of Best Practices and The Dreyfus Model are tied together nicely in this episode of Enerjy.tv by way of a conversation I had with Dan North of Thoughtworks. Dan regularly speaks and blogs about these topics and g

Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 01:47 PM

Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review

Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 500 man ye

Posted: Jul. 2, 2008 12:31 PM

Involving The Team In Bug Fixing Shares Knowledge

A large part of improving the quality of software is knowledge sharing (indeed it is one of the basic tenets of Lean). In most organizations when a bug is submitted it is usually delegated to the developer who wrote the original code. Paul Pagels

Posted: Jun. 27, 2008 03:05 PM

The Misnomer of Best Practices

One evening after sessions at the Better Software Conference, Dan North and I got into a discussion regarding the phrase Best Practices and concluded that this term was actually a misnomer. Lets take a non-software analogy; wearing a seat belt in

Posted: Jun. 24, 2008 12:35 PM

Glitch Watch - Gate change at ATL

So I was coming back from Atlanta yesterday and, as I arrived a bit early at the gate, settled in to read my RSS feeds. I picked a spot that was far enough away from the gate not to be too crowded, while at the same time allowing me to keep an eye o

Posted: Jun. 20, 2008 07:00 AM

The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?

The Dreyfus Model shows the 5 stages of skill acquisition possible through experience of a subject. Created by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus in 1980 while researching AI, the model was popularized by Dr Patricia Benner in the mid Eighties in her work on

Posted: Jun. 17, 2008 09:49 PM

Glitch Watch - Locked out by software glitch

Residents living in a city-owned apartment complex in Nottingham, England, were locked out of their homes on Tuesday of this week after a new security system was installed. Property manager Nottingham City Homes was installing security upgrades, inc

Posted: Jun. 13, 2008 10:26 AM

Glitch Watch - Verizon published 12,500 unlisted numbers

Verizon blamed a software glitch this week for the fact that it published approximately 12,500 unlisted phone numbers in a Washington County, MD phone directory. The company stated that it is taking steps to make amends to affected customers, anywhe

Posted: Jun. 6, 2008 12:53 PM

Is Java Dying? - No Way!

After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled to post some interesting facts. Only a small percentage of developers go to conferences like JavaOne. These people constitute the majority of those who read, write and

Posted: Jun. 3, 2008 01:05 PM

Product Announcement

After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a viable business model for us. Several recent events have helped us reach this conclusion: At JavaOne this year, free tools completely dominated the sessions. The exhibi

Posted: May. 23, 2008 04:36 PM

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