SYSK 363: ‘Software is not made of bricks’ by Ragan Wald
I recently came across this gem http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/08/bricks.html -- strongly recommended!
Here are the section titles to whet your appetite:
· Software is not made of bricks
· Assumption: it’s all about moving bricks
· Software is more complicated than bricks
· Determine the baseline competence required for a project and don’t violate it
· Software development is difficult to parallelize
· How to make the team twice as productive without parallelizing everything
· Software is transfinite
· How to measure progress on software development projects with estimated work remaining
· How to measure progress on software development projects with customer satisfaction
· Building software without treating it like a pile of bricks
I recently came across this gem http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/08/bricks.html -- strongly recommended!
Here are the section titles to whet your appetite:
· Software is not made of bricks
· Assumption: it’s all about moving bricks
· Software is more complicated than bricks
· Determine the baseline competence required for a project and don’t violate it
· Software development is difficult to parallelize
· How to make the team twice as productive without parallelizing everything
· Software is transfinite
· How to measure progress on software development projects with estimated work remaining
· How to measure progress on software development projects with customer satisfaction
· Building software without treating it like a pile of bricks
