By bfwebster on May 21, 2008 in Business, Competition, Main, Product development, Quality assurance, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).]
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.
– William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii.
I have observed a pattern (or anti-pattern) in IT engineering [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 16, 2008 in Books, Business, Development, Hiring, Main, Management, Marketing, Product development, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).]
Two disappointed believers,
Two people playing the game.
Negotiations and love songs
Are often mistaken for one and the same.
– “Train in the Distance”, Paul Simon
I used to have arguments with Carol Teasley, one of my mentors, regarding software development methodologies. She contended that there [...]