Archive for the 'Accountability' Category

The Making Of Professionals

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Everybody seems to be looking for professionals. At least that’s what everybody is saying. With the ever-growing development costs and the increasing complexity of projects, you cannot afford settling for less.
Some organizations seem to start realizing that the way they are currently developing software will not meet these increasing needs for long. They know they […]

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Accountability 101

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Jürgen Ahting wrote a great post about cost estimation, risk analysis, managerial accountability, and the (often not obvious) connection between them.
I feel a need to stress what seems to me as the main point in this article: the lack of accountability. Many problems in managing software projects (and managing in general) are derived from […]

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“Good Enough Quality”

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Every now and then, I come across arguments such as the following:

“There is no sense in investing too much time in designing the product. It only has to be ‘good enough’”.
“We don’t have time for writing Unit Tests. This project is not that critical anyway.”
“Code Reviews? Too much effort for this project. The code doesn’t […]

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