 Creative Chaos
By: Matthew Heusser
Matt Heusser's thoughts on life, software development, testing, postmodernism, and everything.
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Something to read while I am on vacation ...
Tom DeMarco's Clasic, Excellent, Famous Essay "Why Does Software Cost So Much?" |
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Before I jump to solutions, I?d like to take a moment and talk about entropy.
(From the site "If you assert that nature tends to take things from order to disorder and give an example or two, then you will get almost universal recognition and assent. It is a part of our common experience. Spend hours cleaning your desk, your basement, your attic, and it seems to spontaneously... |
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Andy Lester was in town last week, and he did a wonderful talk on technical debt.
Andy's main point seemed to be that technical debt (like real debt) is a drag on the project. By taking shortcuts today (in documentation, or coding, or skipping tests - or cutting and pasting when we should be generalising) we create the appearance of progress, but slow down future progress.
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Now, folks, don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of Extreme Programming, but I do no think that XP is the "one true way" or the "one right way" to do software development. I do think that it pushed back against the "traditional" school of software development in the right direction, at the right time.
For it's time, XP was the contrarian consultant, when, where and how it was badly needed.
If you want the elevator speech to explain... |
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