Steve Freeman

I finally got around to reading Norm Kerth’s Project Retrospectives. To me the most important insight in the book is his underlying assumption that people and teams need maintenance at least as much as the product they’re building.

Reading his chapter on Post-mortems (projects that really have failed), I was struck by his recognition of the […]

I’ve just finished Paul Graham’s Hackers & Painters.

It’s a bit of a polemic (and none the worse for that), and some of the opinions on political economy are contentious, but he writes about truths of software development that most of us don’t get a chance to live up to in a hostile […]