I wrote recently about transparency being key in software development. I think that another way to move in this general direction is to concentrate on letting the business drive your process sometimes too. Our customers don’t need to know much about software development in order to help us develop software that adds a ton of [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Embrace the Skills
10Aug08I tend to spend my time as a software developer taking in anything I can get my hands on – The old ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ adage. While I appreciate opportunities that exercise various skills (and develop new ones when possible), I find it very difficult to multi-task as a developer. Developers [...]
Most people who have worked with me have heard me preach about the importance of transparency. There is an old-school tendency in IT to view software as some sort of ‘magic’. Those paying for the software prefer to look at it this way, because it means that they are not expected to understand it. Those [...]
