Johannes Ernst on July 19th, 2009

Imagine the pope declaring that perhaps god doesn’t exist. Tom DeMarco just published a short, but equally shocking article in IEEE Software. Recall he’s as much as the pope of software engineering as one can imagine, having authored influential works such as Peopleware and influenced virtually any methodologist and software architect since. His article culminates [...]

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Johannes Ernst on July 15th, 2009

Nick Givotovsky was one of the smarter people I ever met. To this day, I only ever understood half of what he said. For years, I was debating with myself whether the other half was just nonsense or whether I simply didn’t manage to understand it. Well, when I finally realized that the first half, [...]

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