SYSK 363: ‘Software is not made of bricks’ by Ragan Wald

I recently came across this gem http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/08/bricks.html -- strongly recommended!

 

Here are the section titles to whet your appetite:

 

· Software is not made of bricks

· Assumption: it’s all about moving bricks

· Software is more complicated than bricks

· Determine the baseline competence required for a project and don’t violate it

· Software development is difficult to parallelize

· How to make the team twice as productive without parallelizing everything

· Software is transfinite

· How to measure progress on software development projects with estimated work remaining

· How to measure progress on software development projects with customer satisfaction

· Building software without treating it like a pile of bricks

I recently came across this gem http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/08/bricks.html -- strongly recommended!

 

Here are the section titles to whet your appetite:

 

· Software is not made of bricks

· Assumption: it’s all about moving bricks

· Software is more complicated than bricks

· Determine the baseline competence required for a project and don’t violate it

· Software development is difficult to parallelize

· How to make the team twice as productive without parallelizing everything

· Software is transfinite

· How to measure progress on software development projects with estimated work remaining

· How to measure progress on software development projects with customer satisfaction

· Building software without treating it like a pile of bricks