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Estimation Anti-Pattern
Name: Precision Estimation
AntiPattern Problem
Developers continually get asked to provide an estimate with a high degree of accuracy. They are expected to spend a fixed period of time to produce the estimate.
Moving on – reflections
I’m leaving Suncorp in January, after about 3 years there. I’m taking up a position at wotif.com where I will be joining a small team that drives their website.
/** no comment */
Chris Justus managed to totally miss my point. He assumes that I was advocating for crappy uncommented code. That is not the case.
How not to comment code
I’ve often encountered the attitude that code or scripts should be commented to the extent that someone unfamiliar with the language being used can understand what’s going on. I most recently encountered this with a set of Ant build scripts I had developed.
Doing this would be bad.
An acid test for “Best Practices”
Dale Emery proposes a simple test to see if a best practice really is.
DTSTTCPW – What does it mean?
“Do The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work” – that’s what. Now, what does that mean?
When offshoring can work
I can’t believe I’m writing about this, but here goes…
Offshoring is part of a continuing trend of economic displacement. In its current form, it’s been going since about the mid ’70s, when cheap bulk transportation (ocean-going cargo ships) combined with an increase in industrialisation in undeveloped countries (specifically: Japan and Taiwan at the time) started [...]