October 13, 2005
My Stop-doing List
I have been back to work for almost two weeks now following a 2 week holiday. I usually take one long holiday a year because it offers me an opportunity to fully detach from my every day life and perform an intense audit of my day-to-day decisions. Normally, this time is completely devoted to my personal life, but this year I choose to concentrate entirely on my work life. This was mostly because I was having difficultly separating my work...
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May 19, 2005
Independent Test Driven Development
There are quite a few development styles that exist in the area of software development. One of these is labeled "Extreme Programming". Besides having an edgy name, this style of development suggests many outside the box ideas for improving both the quality and speed of delivery for developing systems. Personally I'm a little skeptical of some of the methods,...
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May 14, 2005
Decisions and Opinions
I love working at J & R. There are a lot of reasons why I feel that way, but one of the top reasons is due to the balance of opinions and decision making. This may seem like an odd balance pairing but it is vital to our company's success.
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March 31, 2005
Maintaining Quality
Although rarely admitted quality is most often not the highest priority during application development. If it was then the project would have an un-restricted budget and the application "would be ready when it's ready".
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March 25, 2005
Keeping your Eye on the Ball
In a large scale development project it is easy to become focused on meeting the Functional Requirements and lose sight of the purpose of these requirements. The Design cycle keeps in focus the ability for the end users to use the application after it is delivered.
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March 13, 2005
Removing the "Personal" from Personal Experience
Creating a mechanism to share personal experiences will create an invaluable tool that will benefit each member of your current and future team.
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February 24, 2005
Team Code Review
A structured presentation of each line of code is worth the time cost because each member of the development team benefits from each line of written code.
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February 17, 2005
Team Design
Complicated user requirements require team input to produce a solid system design.
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February 10, 2005
Proper Timing to Develop a Support Team
With every mission critical application there is usually a Support Model developed to keep the application running as smoothly as possible. The problem is that usually this Support Model is not formed until late in the development project, if not after deployment. In my experience the proper time to develop the Support Model and staff the team is during System Acceptance Testing.
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February 03, 2005
Upgrading Business Technology
A review of business processes should always be reviewed during the upgrade of business technology.
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