Have you been in this meeting? The big boss pressures the PM to pressure you to say that you can code anything. After all you are the expert right? They believe that developers can do anything, even the most ridiculous tasks. Of course, developers always do; they can do anything. They will ask you to build […]
4 ways to prevent code death by shelfware
What is Shelfware? If you don’t get users involved early in the project, you risk ending up with shelfware. That means that you wrote some great code, the operation was a success but the patient died on the table. None of the users want to use the application and it’s left on the shelf. What […]
NCDevCon in review (9 exciting reasons to go!)
If you missed NCDevCon last month then Denard Springle wrote a review of the event on his blog. Key points Lot of new faces at this years event All the sessions were recorded and publicly available Plan for CF11 from Adobe CF evangelist Elisha Dvorak Solr indexing comes with current CF – how to use […]
Could peopleware bugs crash your project? (6 secret tips)
Your hardware is well tuned. Your software uses the latest techniques. But your projects still fail. Why? It probably is buggy peopleware. Peopleware are the political, culture and social issues in software development – which often gets a back seat to technical issues. Peopleware problems often are the key to why projects fail. Team dynamics […]
3 keys to Avoiding Scope Creep
Have you been on a project with scope creep recently? The scope increases, that leads to late delivery of the project, budget overruns, stress, late nights spent coding when you’d rather be doing other things. Plus all those endless changes have made to the code base decline in quality from all the work done under […]
