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[TMMM] Ch 14 – Hatching a Catastrophe
<< Chapter 13: The Whole and the Parts Milestones or Millstones The first step to keeping a schedule is to actually have a schedule. When designing a schedule, you’ll obviously need milestones. The milestones must be concrete, specific, measurable events. Don’t choose vague tasks like “coding” or “designing”, because coding is always 90% finished, and [...]
[TMMM] Ch 13 – The Whole and the Parts
<< Chapter 12 Sharp Tools Designing the Bug Out Bug-Proofing the Definition Bugs arise from mismatched assumptions made by the authors of various components. It is essential, therefore, to maintain conceptual integrity. Careful function definition, careful specification, and disciplined exorcism of frills of function & flights of technique all reduce the number of system bugs [...]
[TMMM] Ch 12 – Sharp Tools
<< Chapter 11: Plan to Throw One Away Programmers shouldn’t keep their tools a secret. The first major problem to a software projects is communication, and personalized tools hamper communication. Also, the tool lifetime is short due to changes in technology and changes in the language. It is better to have a common development and [...]
[TMMM] Ch 11 – Plan To Throw One Away
<< Chapter 10: The Documentary Hypothesis Pilot Plants and Scaling Up Chemists know that a process that works in the lab cannot be implemented in a factory in only one step. Pilot plants are used to work at an in-between scale. For software projects, the 1st iteration will almost always suck, its big, slow and [...]
[TMMM] Ch 15 – The Other Face