May 2009 - Posts
The SANS institute has published a list of the top 25 most dangerous programming errors. Not only is this a must-read , but it is critical for architects, developers and testers, of all stripes, to be aware of these programming errors. Unless
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On a blog post titled “ what good looks like ,” Alan Inglis detailed a list of “project architectectural artifacts” that he wishes that previous architects would leave behind when a project is completed. In his list, Alan details 10 artifacts (actually
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Sometimes I hear a complaint from an IT architect who wants to have direct conversations with “the business” or “the customer” but, for some reason (usually bureaucratic), they cannot. There is a team of analysts or project managers that they are
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As many of you may know, Microsoft has a vocal and thriving Agile Software Development community. Recently, on our community forum, a question appeared about the ability of Agile development to “scale” to a large team. In other words, if we
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Off topic for architecture… but startling nonetheless: In other words, thousands of American fighters armed with the latest killing technology are taking prescription drugs that the Federal Aviation Administration considers too dangerous for commercial
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Science progresses on the willingness to take widely held beliefs and test them. It is one thing to say that a medicine will “cure all that ails ye” but it is another thing altogether to prove that a particular medicine will have a particular effect
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I'm a process guy. I'm not a big fan of the claims of process management software, but I'm a huge fan of developing and using process models to organize the activities of people, and then to drive the requirements for software from those models. So when
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I started two good blog posts today. Both will wait for another day, as I take this space to say goodbye to three colleagues friends from my department who were laid off today. Gentlemen, I am sorry to see you go. I consider myself blessed to have had
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