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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Code reviews, user stories and documentation

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

I had the pleasure of spending some time talking about project management and software development with James Grenning, who was in town to do training for Object Mentor. (You can read his articles here.) We spoke about a wide range of topics, and I definitely learned a few things about code reviews, user stories and [...]

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A few myths about code reviews

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to get people to do code reviews? It seems like developers and project managers alike are allergic to them. I’ve noticed that when I talk to people about code reviews, the same few objections come up over and over again. I think it’s worth looking at those [...]

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Focus Testing on Conformance To Requirements

Sunday, February 5, 2006

Many projects I have worked on in my career have suffered from misunderstandings about quality from the very beginning.  Software testers were told to “bang on” the software and do some “try to break it” tests (usually for some prescribed amount of time) and report back on what they found.  Sometimes,  work like that will [...]

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Tone at the top

Saturday, February 4, 2006

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Sarbanes Oxley governance compliance lately. It’s interesting how many similarities there are between what it takes to put good accounting and financial processes in place, and what it takes to do the same for software engineering. I’ve found that many of the core [...]

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