tagged by: software craftsmanship
CraftmanshipAndTheCrevasse
Dan North's recent blog post on software craftsmanship has unleashed a lot of blog discussions (which I summarize below, if you're interested). There's a lot in there, but one of his themes particularly resonated with me, hence this post.
19 January 2011
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TradableQualityHypothesis
I commonly come across developers who are frustrated because "management want more features, they don't care about quality". I'm always sad when I hear this, because when I hear this I know that the developers, management and their customers have already lost. Their defeat has been caused by framing the situation in terms of the tradable quality hypothesis.
21 February 2011
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DesignStaminaHypothesis
From time to time I have indirect conversations about whether good software design is a worthwhile activity. I say these conversations are indirect because I don't think I've ever come across someone saying that software design is pointless. Usually it's expressed in a form like "we really need to move fast to make our target next year so we are reducing <some design activity>".
20 June 2007
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