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Software IntegrityEating The IT Elephant - Book Review Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on
various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex
projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300
500 man ye Posted: Jul. 2, 2008 12:31 PM Involving The Team In Bug Fixing Shares Knowledge A large part of improving the quality of software is knowledge sharing (indeed
it is one of the basic tenets of Lean). In most organizations when a bug is
submitted it is usually delegated to the developer who wrote the original code.
Paul Pagels Posted: Jun. 27, 2008 03:05 PM The Misnomer of Best Practices One evening after sessions at the Better Software Conference, Dan North and I
got into a discussion regarding the phrase Best Practices and concluded that
this term was actually a misnomer.
Lets take a non-software analogy; wearing a seat belt in Posted: Jun. 24, 2008 12:35 PM Glitch Watch - Gate change at ATL So I was coming back from Atlanta yesterday and, as I arrived a bit early at the
gate, settled in to read my RSS feeds. I picked a spot that was far enough away
from the gate not to be too crowded, while at the same time allowing me to keep
an eye o Posted: Jun. 20, 2008 07:00 AM The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight? The Dreyfus Model shows the 5 stages of skill acquisition possible through
experience of a subject.
Created by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus in 1980 while researching AI, the model was
popularized by Dr Patricia Benner in the mid Eighties in her work on Posted: Jun. 17, 2008 09:49 PM Glitch Watch - Locked out by software glitch Residents living in a city-owned apartment complex in Nottingham, England, were
locked out of their homes on Tuesday of this week after a new security system
was installed. Property manager Nottingham City Homes was installing security
upgrades, inc Posted: Jun. 13, 2008 10:26 AM Glitch Watch - Verizon published 12,500 unlisted numbers Verizon blamed a software glitch this week for the fact that it published
approximately 12,500 unlisted phone numbers in a Washington County, MD phone
directory. The company stated that it is taking steps to make amends to
affected customers, anywhe Posted: Jun. 6, 2008 12:53 PM Is Java Dying? - No Way! After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled
to post some interesting facts.
Only a small percentage of developers go to conferences like JavaOne. These
people constitute the majority of those who read, write and Posted: Jun. 3, 2008 01:05 PM Product Announcement After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a
viable business model for us. Several recent events have helped us reach this
conclusion:
At JavaOne this year, free tools completely dominated the sessions. The exhibi Posted: May. 23, 2008 04:36 PM Glitch Watch - Incorrect debt ratings at Moodys As if the financial world wasn’t in enough turmoil already, it has been
revealed that programmers at debt rating company Moody’s made a
“coding error” that overrated several debt products in early 2007.
The products affected Posted: May. 23, 2008 12:06 PM 
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