Software Development

There Must Be Only One

When I am having trouble with a product or a service, I will contact customer support and expect that my problem is taken care of. Businesses, who truly care about their customers, ensures that the customer gets an answer right away or the customer support will contact the customer after they have figured out the […] Read more

The Five Faults of a Software Engineer

I have been lately reading The Art of War by Sun Tzu during my buss ride to work. One Chapter of the book described the five faults, which may effect to a general. I realized instantly that the text could also be applied to software engineers. Without further introduction, I will give you the five […] Read more

Quality Management of Software Projects, Part 4: The Last Stand

The previous entry of my quality management series introduced quality management methods, which can be used during a software project to reduce or eliminate quality problems. Since this is the last part of that series, it is only just that I will describe a quality management method, which is used to verify that the delivered […] Read more

Unleashing the Full Potential of Sprint Retrospective Meetings

Today I was asked, how the concerns mentioned in a sprint retrospective meetings can be transferred to concrete results. I am hardly a Scrum expert, but I have got some experience working as a member of a Scrum team. Thus, I decided to explain, what kind of methods I would use for obtaining maximum benefits […] Read more

The first thing, which comes to mind, when someone is telling that he is working in the software development industry, is programming. Obviously, programmers have realized the same thing. However, programming is not the only job in the software development industry. It is not even the most important one. This blog entry is written to […] Read more

Why Free Does Not Always Mean the Same than Cheap

One interesting idiosyncrasy of the software development industry is that the open source movement has created a number of development tools, which can be used to develop computer software free of charge. In some cases, this has been even used to justify the selection of a technology X over a competing technology Y. Even though […] Read more