Some posts I liked to read this week

Better Software - Faster - Mike Coon talks about his thoughts for improving the process of development of software done in house. I think this is an important point, people and tool developers tend to place shrink wrap software development and in house development at the same level. As if they were exactly the same. Having done both i must say there are very significant difference and unfortunately most SDLC tools are product development biased.

Developers are not hot-swappable - Old arguments for something that should be carved in stone years ago. Yet projects still fail because this idea is not yet engrained in project manager mind. *sigh*

Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it - Jeff Patton talks about the difference between iteration and increment in Agile Development. Post based on a presentation called Embrace Uncertanty he has done. (the presentation is downloadable. Worth seeing. The post really doesn't do justice to the presentation, I wish we had the video of the presentation)

Software Development in the Mines of Moria - A reminder there is a _lot_ of code out there that isn't written using the latest technologies.....

Prototypes and Real Applications - On prototypes using scripting languages and why we throw them away. Should we they be thrown out?

[Crossposted on http://www.agilior.pt/blogs/tiago.pascoal/archive/2008/02/02/3606.aspx]