Thomas Koeppen Blog

This is a great artical illustrating what developers need to deal with everyday – Development: “You want answers?” Marketing: “I think we are entitled to them!” … read the whole story: http://blog.versionone.net/blog/2007/03/a_few_good_mana.html Son, we live in a world that requires software. And that software must be built by people with elite skills. Who’s going to [...]

Scott Amler’s article “Scaling Agile Development Via Architecture” in the November 2006 issue of Agile Journal summarizes strategies for Agile teams regarding architecture, and argues that an effective approach to architecture is an important aspect of scaling agile software development. 1. Focus on collaboration over documentation. “Agile architects” are … not simply people who document [...]

Managing is about systems and processes and resources; leading is about achievement and vision. — Peter McDougall You can’t control what you can’t measure. -Tom DeMarco Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction. —Tom DeMarco I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn [...]

I posted some quite interesting articles from Paul Lemberg (the President of Quantum Growth Coaching): Thought Leader Articles by Paul Lemberg: (formerly posted in strategy – still not migrated in my new weblog) 10 Qualities of a Transformational Leader What does a transformational leader need to know? Who do they need to be? Six Ways [...]

1. What industry sites and blogs do you read regularly? 2. Do you prefer to work alone or on a team? 3. How comfortable are you with writing HTML entirely by hand? (+exercise) 4. What is the w3c? 5. Can you write table-less XHTML? Do you validate your code? 6. What are a few of [...]

1. Keep business experts away, far away, from integrators and developers. If the people building the solution don’t talk with the people who need the solution, then the project will fail every time. Admittedly, driving a wedge between creators and users is a lot easier when you’re a manager, but even average workers can keep [...]

2005-04-11, copied from www.s-ox.com (Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal) By Reed Harrison Business, as we know it today, is constantly changing. Those committed to the cause of building a business find themselves subject to new scrutiny. New regulations, not to mention new understandings of those regulations, are making our jobs significantly harder. These changes can be found [...]

Global Knowledge: The open source security position challenges the failing status quo. Increasing security issues underline the fact that the proprietary “hide-the-code” approach is not working. The objective of this article is to present the requirement for ubiquitous, affordable security. It forwards the open source security position and presents empirical evidence, comparative methodology analysis, and [...]