Oh My God, They Killed the Bug (You Bastards!)
A year ago, when I bought my new car, I noticed that the knob on the gear stick was loose. I was able to rotate it 360 degrees. I assumed...
Book Review: Fish!
I just finished reading a little book called Fish!. It's subtitle is "A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results"...
Adaptation vs. Anticipation
In his recent talk on architecture vs. agile development, Philippe Kruchten presented a simple but compelling message: Software Architect...
New Blog Design
Yesterday night I deployed a new design for my blog. It was created by Lucas, a dear colleague of mine, who happily ignored some of my te...
10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management
Project Time Management is one of the nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). It deals with the definit...
FREE Copy of The Software Practitioner
The Software Practitioner is a bi-monthly newsletter created by Robert L. Glass, author of the famous book Facts and Fallacies of Softwar...
Agile Risk Management
Today's evaluation of one of our projects was a tough one. It seemed like nothing had gone right. The customer had signed...
List of All My Articles
In just one week no less than three articles of mine saw the light of day through several magazines and web sites. It has come that far t...
My Articles
This is the complete list of my articles. All of them were published in various magazines and on a couple of web sites. Why Self-Organiza...
Can Refactoring Grow Out of Control?
In a recent talk on architecture and agile development, Philippe Kruchten told his listeners that refactoring can grow out of control whe...
Architects vs. Agilists (1 – 1)
Some software architects think that agile development is an irresponsible way of creating (badly structured) software, hyped by a bunch o...
Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever
I recently created a Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I created that list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazo...
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