Tag Archives: software development
Rubyist OS X Dev setup
I just bought a shiny new MacBook Pro with a 2.4 GHz Core i5, 8 GB Memory, on OS X 10.63 and thought I would share my setup. TextMate Head over to http://macromates.com/ and download TextMate. Once we have installed … Continue reading
Django LAMP
Over the past year and a half I have been using WordPress to publish my web site & blog. Prior to WordPress I was using Calabro which is build with Python on TurboGears. WordPress is great, but does not give … Continue reading
Best practices for running a software development team
Build solid relationships all of your stakeholders. Customers Product Management Executives Business Partners Business Units Customer Support Operational Support Create a single intake process for all product requests. Partner with stakeholders when prioritizing requests. Make sure they are part of … Continue reading
Agile development and low tech tools
I just recently started working on large software development project that the management team decided to use SCRUM over some of the existing waterfall process used throughout the rest of the organization. When I first heard the news I thought … Continue reading
How to build a product
Developers, product management, and customers brainstorm ideas. What problem are we trying to solve? What market opportunity are we trying to meet? Developers & product management write the core user stories. Developers build an end-to-end web site skeleton with mocks … Continue reading
Meetings
It seems that in all my years of software development every company I work at seems to feel the need to pull people off of real work to have a meeting. Where they want to discuss some useless topic that … Continue reading
Why working in a large org sucks
Great quote by Paul Graham which explains why working in a large software development organization sucks. ..we can get a portrait of the “normal” world. It’s populated by people who talk a lot with one another as they work slowly … Continue reading
