The Mindset

I have a confession: I am not the kind of person who wanders around the house looking for things to fix. Let me rephrase that: I am not the kind of person who fixes things around the house as soon as something breaks. OK, you’re on to me — I hate fixing things around the […]

In a recent article Eric Sink claims to have found the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of our industry: why do we all sell products with bugs? And the answer is: The alternative is to fix them and risk introducing worse bugs.
OK then. We can now go on with our lives knowing we […]

I read a lot of articles and blog postings about software development, management and quality. My “favorite” articles are characterized by their ability to present some idea or concept with a sound voice, while blurring other important aspects of the subject. Most of them are not doing that on purpose. But the innocent reader might still get a wrong […]

Soon after the extinction of punch cards, when programming became a task one could do using a personal computer, a new natural phenomenon was discovered. It seemed like software has a tendency to behave differently when executed on different machines. What seemed like an arbitrary behavior at first was then found out to be consistent […]

While the origins of this phrase are not clear, it is widely accepted that the most probable place to find it is in the support knowledge base of a well-known software company, which would have copyrighted it if she could. The reason this sentence cannot be effectively copyrighted is that it is an essential part […]