Jimali Software Engineering Newsletter
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The following content was added to the website since the last newsletter. You can follow the links below to the sections that contain the content.
| Content | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting Bugs: Remove, Retry, Replicate, and Rejuvenate IEEE Computer Society membership required | Integration Testing | This article discusses various types of defects that occur in software systems and shows that they need to be debugged using different methods. In essence, one size does not fit all. |
| Agile Retrospectives:Making good teams great | Book reviews | A review of the book Agile Retrospectives: Making good teams great. This book discusses how to improve the quality of the work performed by teams through the use of regular retrospectives. |
| Risk Management Guide for DOD Aquisition | Risk Management | The US DOD guidelines for managing risk in defence aquisition projects. |
| Risk Management Hands-on Workshop | Risk Management | This workshop conducted by the US DOD provides a decent background for setting up and running a risk management programme. The workshop does not go into great detail. |
| Facilitating Earned Value Management and Knowledge Sharing Through the Web TechRepublic membership required - free | Project Management | Discussion about using Earned Value methods. |
| What's good software anyway? | Quality Assurance | Article about the criteria that collectively constitute a definitive, objective trademark of good software. |
| Towards design simplicity IEEE Computer Society Membership required | Design | A philosophical look at design simplicity. |
| Link | Desciption |
|---|---|
| The 10 most dangerous species of IT Manager | A humourous look at the different types of managers and the effects they have. I seem to have worked for a number of these people. |
| Your user's brain wants a conversation! | This blog contrasts the differences between writing formally and writing like you're having a conversation. It's an interesting piece because it suggests that people learn more from having a conversation that listening or reading formal prose. |
| Let the Experts Make the Decisions | This blog looks at where decisions should be made. The comments apply to all decisions made on a software project, as technical decisions should not be made by business people, and vice versa. As highlighted in the blog, the impacts of the wrong person making the decision can be very far ranging and detrimental to the organisation. |
| Inspiring your user-evangelists | This blog gives advice for helping product users become evangelists for the product. There are some interesting ideas here. |
| Don't ask employees to be passionate about the company! | This blog talks about being passionate about your profession NOT your employer. An interesting read. |
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