Ben Griswold on June 17th, 2008

My customer recently asked me if my current coding assignment is difficult.  I believe his exact question was, “On a scale of 1 to 10, how technically difficult is this project?”  If you have been in the software development business for more than 2 hours, you know this is a loaded question.  Quickly reply with [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 13th, 2008

Are you involved in your company’s project estimation process? If so, let’s pretend. Let’s pretend that your company has internal constraints which makes estimating rather difficult. For example, let’s say you were required to completed all of your 2008 estimates towards the end of 2007 despite the fact that very few requirements were known. Don’t [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 11th, 2008

If I were to guess, I receive 2.25 bookstore gift cards and 1.25 books around Christmas each year. Nearly 100% of the tangible books have been non-technical in nature.  This year’s book — Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery — was a present from my soon-to-be sister-in-law.  As I don’t tend to read [...]

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