Business Requirements are…

I found this gem this morning and just had to share it!
Business Requirements are… 

Req Docs are like Contraceptives…

…you don’t know you need one until it’s too late. And now you’re stuck with a project that no one wants and no one loves. You’re too young to have a project!
Okay, the analogy only goes so far.

4 Things That Hold Us Back

“We have met the enemy and he is us” - Walt Kelly
I’m a person with plans. I have lots of ideas. Somehow, these ideas don’t ever get executed on, or they get started and end up partially completed and then discarded - like a rusting muscle car on blocks in someone’s front yard. So what [...]

Boom to Bust: Startups that go Belly Up

I found an interesting article about the internet startups of years gone by. The article itself, 25 Internet Startups that Bombed Miserably was interesting enough - it gives a brief overview of companies such as pets.com, Lycos, and Kiko. What I found even more interesting, however, was a link to a different article in one [...]

The Interview Process

I just recently had the opportunity to interview with a new company and it was amazing. Why was it amazing? It wasn’t because it was easy but because it was intense! I think a person can judge how much they will enjoy working for a company based on how hard they have to work during [...]

Forced to Write Bad Code

Almost every developer at some point has addressed a software requirement with bad code or has implemented a hack to temporarily solve a problem. Sometimes there just isn’t enough time to do something right. Most of the time we can get away with it because it works just fine. If you’re feeling nice that day you might even flag [...]

The Customer Is Always Right

…but your sales team isn’t.
Successful businesses produce and deliver products that customers need at a price they are willing to pay for. Most of the time if a customer doesn’t like the product presented to them then they will not purchase it and the company has to redesign the product in order to make the sale. But, it seems [...]

“The Engineer’s Disorder”

I read a few articles that I found through digg the other day and came to a startling conclusion. I may be mildly autistic. Now by mild, I mean very mild. I told this to my wife and she scoffed at me. She thinks instead of having mild autism I may be a mild hypochondriac. [...]