Why Your Development is Crazy

re: Why Your Development is Crazy

Bill Ziss — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:16:57 GMT

Here are a few more, and they are whoppers:

Software factories (Jack Greenfield)

WCF

Domain Specific Languages

UI usability (Platt, Cooper, Krug, Van Duyne, etc.)

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re: Why Your Development is Crazy

Kathleen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:38:45 GMT

Thanks Andrew.

Some of these coincide with my thinking and some take it in new directions.

re: Why Your Development is Crazy

Andrew — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:02:18 GMT

Maybe add:

Cross platform.

Mixed languages.

Memory/Resource management.

Distributed systems.

I'm unsure about suggesting source control as that might be covered in tools.

You've left out a lot a "social" aspects:

Project management.

Documentation & communication.

Bug reporting.

Stress management.

Team building.

Conflict resolution.

Salary/Contract negotations.

Workplace conditions.

Health and safety.

Of course there are customers who use the software:

Requirement analysis.

Feedback.

Prototyping.

Marketing, sales.

And heck, how could I forget the ongoing training that developers need in order to keep their skills useful/marketable. There's a dozen items just in that.

There's a lot more and I'm only scratching the surface. Looking up the books by Steve McConnell will spill a thousand more points.

New Items for the List

Leaning Into Windows — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:58:55 GMT

While annotating the existing list, I came up with several new Items for the list of things that have