Verity Stob. Brilliant
20 Jan 2008
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/20/verity_stob_short_curly/
Monthly Archive January, 2008
Checklist-Driven Programming
13 Jan 2008
In another brilliant article for the New Yorker, Atul Gawande writes about how Peter Pronovost, a doctor at John Hopkins Hospital, has been proving the value of the humble checklist in situations which are “now too complex for clinicians to carry them out reliably from memory alone.”
Eliminating bugs (both kinds)
The example Pronovost started with […]
Generation X, moi?
8 Jan 2008
According to this survey, I belong in Generation X. That can’t be right.
Asphalt on mud
Dave Nicolette has a nice post called Good-enough today beats complete next year about
how Agile helps to focus development on delivering something valuable in time for the business, instead of waiting for the full, perfect solution.
I think it’s important also to distinguish different kinds of quality. The clue is in the phrase “well-graded dirt road”, […]
2008 What have you changed your mind about? Why?
“The Edge” online magazine posts a question every year to lots of interesting people. The strapline this year is:Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?”
A major time-sink.
http://edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html