September 2009 - Posts
Here’s one more thought on the subject of complexity in software development: software development is NP-hard . Software development (in the sense of building large projects end-to-end) has these characteristics: A proposed solution can be easily proved
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My previous post talked about how software development can’t be modeled by any process that’s significantly less complex than the development process itself. I’d like to expand on that a bit more. Irreducible Complexity I think people are attracted
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A recent internal email thread asked about the difference in philosophy between Agile development and Waterfall-style development (or anything that promotes BDUF). There’s the Agile Manifesto which clearly articulates the basic assumptions of that movement,
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My smart card renewal tool uses an authenticated SSL connection to communicate with a WCF web service hosted in IIS; that is, a client certificate is required for connection and IIS automatically maps that certificate into a domain account identity so
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About six months ago I published some example code for enrolling for smart card certificates across domains . Of course, once you’re able to enroll for a smart card certificate across domains, at some point you’ll also need to renew that certificate across
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Sometimes the Scrum process kind of breaks down. Maybe there’s confusion over backlog items, or some people end up with nothing to do, or there’s a general sense of spinning the wheels but not getting anywhere. I’ve seen these kinds of symptoms
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This is a little late but there was an interesting internal thread about Tom DeMarco’s recent article in IEEE Software entitled “ Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? ” In it he recants his early writing on the topic of metrics
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Over the past few months there have been several interesting email threads on internal aliases at work that have helped clarify my thinking about various Agile topics. I thought I’d share some of the things I wrote in hopes that it’ll be useful
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