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Posing For The Camera

Posers

That tweet was triggered by this exchange within the confines of one of the C++ LinkedIn.com  groups:

Poser Example

Now granted, BD00 may come across as being a poser to some/many, but he actually tries to fend off the strong, innate desire to impress others with his self-proclaimed “expertise“. Of course, as the content of this blog confirms, he often fails miserably. How about you? How often do you find yourself posing for the camera?

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Connected By Assumptions

“The connections between modules are the assumptions which the modules make about each other.” – David Parnas

My Modules

LOL-Worthy

June 6, 2013 2 comments

There are some creatively funny, LOL-worthy, parody accounts worth following on Twitter . Here’s a list of those that I laughingly trail.

LOL-Worthy

Got any other recommendations for BD00?

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Agile Software Factories

The next big thing in software development is here….

SW Factories

Where’s my hard hat? Whoo Hoo!

ALP

What Is It?

June 3, 2013 2 comments

Ok dear reader, it’s quiz time! How does an enduring album come into the world? How does a revered painting emerge into being? How does a beloved novel spring forth? Please describe the “Process” in your own words….

Abstract Concrete

Agile Overload

June 1, 2013 9 comments

Since I buy a lot of Kindle e-books, Amazon sends me book recommendations all the time. Check out this slew of recently suggested books:

Agile Books

My fave in the list is “Agile In A Flash“.  I’d venture that it’s written for the ultra-busy manager on-the-go who can become an agile expert in a few hours if he/she would only buy and read the book. What’s next? Agile Cliff notes?

Agile” software development has a lot going for it. With its focus on the human-side of development, rapid feedback control loops to remove defects early, and its spirit of intra-team trust, I can think of no better way to develop software-intensive systems. It blows away the old, project-manager-is-king, mechanistic, process-heavy, and untrustful way of “controlling” projects.

However, the word “agile” has become so overloaded (like the word “system“) that….

Everyone is doing agile these days, even those that aren’t – Scott Ambler

Gawd. I’m so fed up with being inundated with “agile” propaganda that I can’t wait for the next big silver bullet to knock it off the throne – as long as the new king isn’t centered around the recently born, fledgling, SEMAT movement.

What about you, dear reader? Do you wish that the software development industry would move on to the next big thingy so we can get giddily excited all over again?

Agile NP