Ziobrando's Lair

Like it or not, David Heinemeier Hanson did it. By starting the debate around the “Is TDD Dead” topic, he forced the whole agile community t...

A friend of mine recently told me about a tricky situation he was trying to solve. A software company was supposed to develop an application...

Another interesting question that popped out during my “Agile: the B-Plan” presentation at IAD2008 regarded the different cost schema of an ...

Agile methodologies focus on the notion of self-organizing teams, as a key to software development success. This works for a lot of reasons:...

I have the feeling of having killed somebody’s dream in my last post . And also of walking on the edge of being misinterpreted. I think I’ve...

One of the most intriguing parts of the discussion, that was part of my speech in IAD2008, was a question (interestingly asked by one of the...

Honestly, I never thought my last post could have been that controversial. But I had so many diverging feedbacks: some loved the post, some ...

Yesterday evening I attended Craig Larman's brilliant  talk -  in Skills Matter, in which he deeply criticized some commons dysfunction...

A software development project is a bounded  activity. One of the key goals of Software Architecture is to find the best trade-off (or the s...

This is just a slightly different version of an old post ... I’ve got this stuff bouncing in my head, right after reading this Joel Spolsky’...

"Excuse me, sir. I think you got the wrong shoes on!" "What do you mean?" "Looks like you put the right foot into t...

Just a quick addendum to my previous post about software estimates (and how to fool yourself cheating with them). The most effective trick t...

Most widely used techniques for estimating software projetcs are guess a number ask a number and multiply it by pi pick the release date, c...

I was reading this post from Steve Jones, and had mixed feelings: as I commented on his blog, I am trying hard not to be that type of arch...

In the last week I found myself thinking or discussing about which was the most suitable container for different pieces of information. In o...

Recalling projects I’ve seen, I realized that there was a strong correlation between the technological landscape of the project and the actu...

A recent research on learning patterns on humans and primates lead to interesting results: findings were that while young primates basically...

One of the key features of iterative development processes is the ability to make the work in progress observable. Clearly, different roles ...

Agile methodologies, particularly XP, strive to achieve better process efficiency by reducing the amount of the required documentation to a ...

Right after publishing this post , I’ve got the feeling of something missing, that still could be extracted from the IKEA metaphor. Mounting...