Articles in Better Software Magazine
Better Software Magazine is a useful, practitioner-centric magazine filled with tactical advice paired with emergent thinking on software development.
Kicking Off the Slow Software Movement pdf
August 2007
In August 2007 I was lucky enough to be able to edit an issue of Better Software Magazine. I was able to choose my authors: Alistair Cockburn, Jim Highsmith, and Jim Shore. I did this because I was lazy – I wanted great articles without a lot of effort. Choosing these authors guaranteed it.
This “Technically Speaking” column from the editor allowed me a page to rant about what was important to me – namely the tendency for software development to dig too quickly into building software before being clear about the context their software will be used in, the goals it should reach, and the problems it should solve.
What Goes Up Must Come Down pdf
Oct 2005
A balanced approach to writing requirements takes a top down and bottom up approach.
It’s All in How You Slice It pdf
January 2005
Design your project in working layers to avoid half-baked incremental releases.
An Elephant In The Room pdf
January 2004
The whole reason we make software is so someone can use it. Yet just who these users are, their needs – skills and goals – is so hard to determine that they are often simply ignored INTERACTION DESIGN helps you stop treating your customers like AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
