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Monthly Archives: October 2009

When team members hate each other

We don’t always get to choose our teammates, especially at work. So what do you do when you just don’t get along with someone on your team? Not too long ago, I was doing our Beautiful Teams talk at a brown bag lunch for a big financial company here in New York. At the end [...]

Using nonfunctional requirements to build better software

Understanding nonfunctional requirements — which some people call software quality attributes or nonbehavioral requirements — can make a big difference when you’re building software. But a lot of people have trouble taking a somewhat theoretical idea and applying it to a real-life project. Luckily, we’ve got an easy, practical technique to use nonfunctional requirements on [...]