Quality is a differentiator. Grab the low hanging fruit; put these practices to use in your own projects, build stable applications, and you will differentiate your products from the competition.

Software size metrics provide benefits to managing your software projects successfully. They improve estimating, monitoring and control, and they provide objective release criteria defining when done is done. However, using size metrics on a software project requires a disciplined approach, and too often discipline is a casualty of intense pressure on software projects, but metrics, when used effectively, have tangible, powerful, and immediate benefits.

In February many of the older articles continued to have heavy readership. I find it interesting to see how the articles of interest evolve over time. Some of the older articles are the most popular articles for the month when not too long ago it was always the latest articles published that would have the largest readership for the month.

What happened to the software industry? I hate professional certifications. It didn’t used to be this way. Many employers are looking for the certificate du jour on your resume as a filter for an interview. Having a certification means nothing. I remember as a child it was a big thing if someone had their black belt in Karate. It meant they were tough until they picked a fight with the real tough guy who knew nothing about Karate. Everyone was awed.

 
I’m reminded of an interview I had with a young company for a Software Director role.  They were at point where they were ready to begin rapidly acquiring new customers.  When a new customer signed, …

January was a good month at You Want It When?  It had the largest increase in unique visitors in a single month.  Unique visitors for the month of January grew ~75% over the month of …

 
One of the difficulties I have with the Agile software methodologies and its proponents is that they go to far.  They are often susceptible to hyperbole while hawking their methodology like used car salesmen.   Their …

First, I’d like to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year.  I’m starting to get back in to the swing of things, and I’m looking to publish as frequently as I was before the months …

 
It’s often said, you have to take risks to be successful. Who would disagree with that?  Starting a business is risky.  Investing in the stock market is risky. Going to college is risky.  Getting married …

It finally happened.  It was only a matter of time before the day of reckoning would strike.  Leading up to the crisis, you’d never have known there were clouds forming in the real-estate and credit …