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The latest .Net Rocks podcast was from a panel at TechEd 2008 (that I sadly missed while there). Richard Campbell was the moderator and the topic was Software Quality. It was a good, if somewhat one-sided discussion and I recommend giving it a listen if you are so inclined.
I particularly liked Billy Hollis' perspective on quality because it was a perspective that was grounded in both reality and sound business principles. He kept bringing up quality in terms of trade-offs and the others kept trying to waltz around those comments with a more absolutist, almost dogmatic, vision of software...
This post is from my new digs at The Runtime, cross-posted here for your edification. I’ll continue here for the foreseeable future, so no need to jigger your subscription if you don’t want to. I thought I’d take a shot at introducing myself here as suggested by Jay and maybe dispel any pretense at being a thinker, heady or no. Frankly, it’s probably long past time that I put together some kind of background post about myself if only to give those who disagree with me a way to discount my arguments out of hand. I suspect...
"So when will you be done with this development project?"
I don't know about you, but I hate this question. There simply is no good answer for it. It seems like such a simple question with a simple DateTime valued answer. One of these days I swear I'll answer with, "Oh, I'll be done next Tuesday at 2:34pm." just to see what happens.
And seriously, businesses hate that we have such difficulty answering the question. It seems perfectly reasonable for them to want to know when they can plan to have the new processes that they know they desperately need. Developers demand...
Lidor Wyssocky has some good thoughts on why it is that developers don't implement changes that they know would be helpful.
The problem is that although we know exactly what doesn’t work right and how it should be fixed, most of us will never say anything. We don’t say anything because there’s a very good chance the minute we do we will be marked as uncooperative, pessimistic, or simply detached from the business reality. (emphasis in original)
He concludes with his call to action.
If more of us say what we know in our hearts to be true, the rest won’t be able...