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On Management: Focus, Quality, Time-boxes and Ducks

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26 October 2008 08:57:00 +00:00

Project success depends on organisation. Allan Kelly looks at how to keep things in order.

Performitis (Part 3)

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26 October 2008 08:55:00 +00:00

Prevention is better than cure. Klaus Marquardt suggests some treatments to avoid problems.

On Management

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17 August 2008 09:54:00 +01:00

Management is a vital part of software development. Allan Kelly starts a new series by balancing some constraints.

Quality Manifesto

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08 June 2008 16:56:00 +01:00

Software quality is a systems engineering job. Tom Gilb explains the importance of knowing where we're going.

Creating Awareness

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08 December 2007 11:55:00 +00:00

One of the good things about presenting at the ACCU conference is what you learn there. Allan Kelly reviews the results of his last conference talk.

Managing Technical Debt

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31 January 2007 08:55:00 +00:00

Software projects often cut corners in the rush to meet deadlines, resulting in bad code. Tom Brazier helps us to budget the cost of "doing it wrong".

The Agile Manifesto Explained (and a First Amendment)

Administrator

02 October 2005 06:00:00 +01:00

In my last article I set the scene for what I hope will be a series of provocative and informative articles. In the article I described the plight of Pete and his vain efforts to change development processes at his place of work.

Setting up a Subversion Server for Remote Use

Administrator

02 October 2005 06:00:00 +01:00

Revision control is a critical part of any significant development project. Having secure full time access to your repository from wherever you are can be important. In some environments, such as open source projects, it's absolutely crucial to the functioning of the development team.

Editorial: Size Does Matter

Administrator

09 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

The way that one goes about developing and delivering a software project depends critically on the scale of the project.
Discuss.

Becoming and Being Agile

Administrator

03 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

Software Project Management: Adding Stakeholder Metrics to Agile Projects

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02 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

Agile methods need to include stakeholder metrics in order to ensure that projects focus better on the critical requirements, and that projects are better able to measure their achievements, and to adapt to feedback. This paper presents a short, simple defined process for evolutionary project management (Evo), and discusses its key features.

Investigating Java Class Loading

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02 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

C-side Re-sort

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02 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

In spite of the attention given to object-oriented development, TDD and modern testing frameworks, it is worth understanding how and why unit testing has an important role to play in general, regardless of the technologies or broader development philosophy involved. This article walks through a simple example, highlighting some of the motivation behind basic unit testing and the practices involved but without following through into TDD.

C++ Interface Classes - Noise Reduction

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02 August 2005 05:00:00 +01:00

Interface classes are a principle mechanism for separating a class' interface from its implementation in C++. I wrote an introduction to interface classes in a previous article. In this article, I intend to explore interface classes - and their implementation classes - further.