The post is a mix of Java, Scala and some fantasy language. I use the code examples to explain my points not as actual working code I really like interfaces. I wrote about them here. They feel clean to me. They abstract ideas and minimize the contract between classes. I encourage developers to develop against […]
Read More »Catchy title? I mean it. After 25 years of programming, the only thing that really matters in software development is if a company understands the project triangle. That from the three variables scope, time and resources you can only define two. There are two kinds of companies. Those that understand this and those that don’t. […]
Read More »Update to my black swan post. I found an excellent quote in a risk book about hedge funds, A demon of our own design (as always no partner link) which reflects my black swan post. Richard Bookstaber writes about risk management for financial instruments: “The types of risk that could be readily measured were better […]
Read More »Photo by Randy Son Of Robert The biggest problem with tales about software success is that they only show the survivors. This problem is independent of the domain, be it Rails, Scrum or CMMI success stories. Survivor bias is when you only look at the survivors of a process and then attribute the success of […]
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