…or the telephone game photo credit: tallkev Last weekend I was watching a movie with my kids. In the movie there was a chain of monkeys that needed to pass on the message from one character to one on the other side of the chain. The message...

According to the latest figures from the Standish Group, only 32% of software development projects are successful. If you follow our list of 10 patterns and avoid the antipatterns, your success rate should be a lot higher than that. The first two...

photo credit: Ramón Peco For any software development professional who has contracted out from time to time, this story must seem familiar. You interview and are told that they practice agile development. Once you show up at the job site, they tell...

photo credit: Daquella manera When you're in software development you sometimes get called in via the Bat Signal -- a project is going sideways and management feels they need more bodies or different bodies to get the thing back on track. For a while...

photo credit: Ian Muttoo A whole lot of years ago, maybe back in 1992, I went over to Gary Becker's home to install a gopher client on his mac. I remember it was one of those brick macs, though those were already being supplanted by newer mac models....