You have surely noticed that I have been very quiet in the past year. It is because I was writing my first book. This has taken most of my writing energy. The topic is very close to what I am talking about here: human dynamics inside the context of a software project. I present a whole [...]
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The UK government, in its attempt to save money (like almost all European government) has scrapped the Games industry tax relief. Clearly, the industry is in shock and the different interviews available online from people representing the Games are using words such as betrayal. It is not for me to judge. Britain’s studios have produced some [...] In order to innovate, you first have to master the rules very well. [...] As we all know, outsourcing off-shore is a complex decision to make for a company. The reasons for doing so are generally cost saving of course, but also the hope to get the development happen faster due to a bigger and more readily available team. When you have at last made the decision to do it, comes [...] “Please sign here!” Every time I hear that sentence I am worried about what I am doing. And every time I am in the same situation: I have to sign to move forward but I am leaving part of my freedom away. This is true when you get a mortgage or a credit, when you sign [...] John von Neumann, the “father” of computers as they are now, has said: There’s no point in being exact about something if you don’t even know what you’re talking about. I like that quote and I’ll tell you why. I have delivered again and again courses about requirements management and requirements gathering. There is no surprise to [...] When I teach iterative approach in software development, I use to justify it with an analogy that I have borrowed from Kent Beck: managing software is like driving a car; you permanently need to adjust left and right if you don’t want to have an accident. That’s a fine analogy and it always worked for me. [...] Who in the software industry has not worked in one of these huge open-spaces readily available in many workplaces? Those who have not can probably consider themselves as the exception. Those who have, probably wonder where on earth this idea of putting dozens and dozens of people in the same room to produce software, come from. [...] |
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