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February 2005 - Posts

Managers’ ills and developers’ ills in clear reckon – How to build trust?

I have found this article well written, I dont know if the author has been a software design practitioner but has a good sense of the problems in our industry; I personally disagree on the way his recommendations have been implemented but his article
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Theoretic physics vs. programming. Which is more challenging?

An opinion from one that had a degree in theoretic physics: “The next important moment in my life was in 1955 when I decided to become a programmer; I took that decision because I had concluded that of theoretic physics and programming, programming embodied
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Software Pioneers in general, a software quality view in particular

Software Pioneers http://www.sdm.de/en/it-wissen/themen/sdmkonf-2001/index.html I found these videos and slides form people like: Ole-Johan Dahl Niklaus Wirth Fred Brooks Alan Kay Peter Chen Edsger W. Dijkstra C.A.R. Hoare David L. Parnas John Guttag
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The people factor - The resistance to ideas is positive and vital

What I think, the ideas that direct my will, ideas such as my values, convictions and principles need a certain resistance from which they surround me, because that is something positive and vital. It comes to mind what Jerry Johnson (Menninger Business
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Reminder for the agile practitioner: Management-Aided Software Engineering

Always tell the truth as you know it. There are chances that “Unspoken Truths” creep around your project; as human beings, there are chances that you or other team member (including non-technical staff) are in denial, so make sure everyone remind to be
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UML 2.0 Infrastructure feedback

Context: Figure 5 - The top-level package structure of the UML 2.0 Superstructure Section 7.2.4 Superstructure Architecture of UML 2.0 UML2 Infrastructure Final Adopted Specification http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2003-09-15 Questions to the team
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