Open Kosmaczewski

Introduction Both users and black-box testers approach software with apparently similar attitudes; however, they have fundamentally different goals. With this article I will try to expose some of my ideas about this dichotomy. Users and Testers When it comes to black-box software testing, there are two main differences between users and testers, in my opinion; [...]

Introduction Time is the ultimate dictator: “Time is also the one variable that has the least amount of flexibility. Time passes no matter what happens on a project.” (Schwalbe, chapter 6, page 202). As a result, any problem regarding the schedule of a project is likely to be the most difficult one to manage. In [...]

Introduction Politics are part of our daily life. Nevertheless, the word has got a bad reputation in the IT world (and elsewhere, too), thanks to famous failures and managed disasters, but the truth is that to succeed, projects need politics – and project managers should know it well. In this posting, I will describe the [...]

Acabo de leer esta aberración: En este marco, para incrementar los resultados de los proyectos de IT, es fundamental reformar la educación en sistemas, adoptando un enfoque original y desafiante que comprenda no sólo la difusión de metodologías, técnicas y experiencias sino también el replanteo de varios paradigmas incorporando nuevos marcos conceptuales provenientes de la [...]

I’ve just posted the following question on LinkedIn: From Peopleware in the 80s to Joel Spolsky nowadays, when talking about software engineering, a lot has been written about the relative merits and drawbacks of individual, quiet offices against the “classic” open space of most companies today. My personal experience is that private offices bring greater [...]

As if you haven’t enough to read, this is an interesting one: Almost Perfect, by Pete Peterson, about the fall of WordPerfect. Remember?

antes que nada fijate que todo lo que te explique anteriormente anda. empecemos. primero armate una carpeta con archivos varios, en tu escritorio. pone imagenes, archivos php, javascript, html, carpetas con mas cosas adentro, lo que se te ocurra, con cuantos subniveles que quieras. cualquier disposicion estara bien. lo unico que te pido es que [...]

tenes que aprender subversion. por lo pronto tenes que instalarlo en tu mac, lo cual es facilisimo ya que hay un instalador que lo hace por vos, y que tenes que bajarte de aca: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/Subversion-1.4.2.pkg.zip (por las dudas las ultimas versiones estan siempre disponibles en http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/) es un zip que contiene un pkg de instalacion; [...]

Introduction In this article I give an overview of the Scrum Software Development Process. This methodology was first described by Takeuchi and Ikujiro in their 1986 book “The New New Product Development Game“, and was initially meant to manage any kind of product development project. This methodology, for example, has been used in “real” product [...]

Introduction This is a tricky question; after all, Bill Gates himself published a book in 1995, “The Road Ahead”, where he only slightly talks about the World Wide Web: “The Road Ahead” appeared in December 1995, just as Gates was unveiling Microsoft’s master plan to “embrace and extend” the Internet. Yet the book’s first edition, [...]