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How about an hourly build?
The benefits of a daily build are well understood by now. McConnell even cites the book Showstopper! as an extreme example circa 1993: Who can benefit from this process? Some developers protest that...
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Top Project Manager Practice: Project Postmortem
You may think you’ve completed a software project, but you aren’t truly finished until you’ve conducted a project postmortem. Mike Gunderloy calls the postmortem an essential tool for the savvy...
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Is “crashing” the worst thing it could happen?
Here’s an interesting thought question from Mike Stall: what’s worse than crashing? Mike provides the following list of crash scenarios, in order from best to worst: Application works as expected and...
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Logging and software development maturity
According to Wikipedia maturity is: a psychological term used to indicate how a person responds to the circumstances or environment in an appropriate manner. This response is generally learned rather...
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I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code—what now?
kmote asks: I am newly employed as the sole “SW Engineer” in a fairly small shop of scientists who have spent the last 10-20 years cobbling together a vast code base. (It was written in a virtually...
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Analysing success
As the 1940’s air war in Europe intensified, the Allies faced a major problem. Their bombers would leave England by the hundreds, but too many of them didn’t return, brought down by extremely heavy...
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