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Uncommon Sense (for Software)
by k at 1:43 pm EDT, Apr 27, 2006

How you place your squigglies won’t affect users in the slightest. But attention to internal code layout details implies that you’re equally attentive to the external details.

Nice blog... the guy makes some sense.

I also took a quick look at the site for his product, devshop, which appears to be a super cool project/requirements management tool.

I'm knee deep (or forehead deep, as it feels) in getting our internal development team up to speed on consistent requirements and project management methodology. I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I'm a developer who's fed up trying to make arbitrary deadlines because no one's tracking anything.

The downside is that due to client requirements, we're stuck using, essentially, the Rational Unified Process and some subset of the Rational toolset. That is, ClearQuest for defect and enhancement tracking, RequisitePRO for requirements management and Rational Rose for modelling and design. Of course, we're using MS Project for setting timelines and so forth, which is completely *not* integrated with the rest of the process.

Let me just note, I fucking hate the Rational Tools. I find them to be either minimally functional or so full of "features" that they're obtuse and are universally ultra-unfriendly. I'm 90% sure that's purposeful so that they can sell you expensive training / consulting.

Granted, the devshop application noted above doesn't do all the things that the Rational tools do, but appears to cut right to the chase as far as the nitty gritty of actually getting some work done. I look forward to checking out the final product. -k]


 
RE: Uncommon Sense (for Software)
by dmv at 11:19 am EDT, Apr 28, 2006

k wrote:

Let me just note, I fucking hate the Rational Tools. I find them to be either minimally functional or so full of "features" that they're obtuse and are universally ultra-unfriendly. I'm 90% sure that's purposeful so that they can sell you expensive training / consulting.

I'm starting a new job next month that apparently extensively uses Rational Rose. I haven't used it before, and that wasn't the great appeal of the job itself... but hopefully it won't be too bad. It is a SCRUM shop with my project manager being someone who teaches software engineering methodology at CMU as a side thing, so if anything it will be a great contrast to the grad-school research programming I've been doing most recently.

DevShop got very nice reviews on TechCrunch.


  
RE: Uncommon Sense (for Software)
by k at 7:20 pm EDT, Apr 30, 2006

dmv wrote:

I'm starting a new job next month that apparently extensively uses Rational Rose. I haven't used it before, and that wasn't the great appeal of the job itself... but hopefully it won't be too bad. It is a SCRUM shop with my project manager being someone who teaches software engineering methodology at CMU as a side thing, so if anything it will be a great contrast to the grad-school research programming I've been doing most recently.

I wish you the very best of luck.. I hadn't heard of SCRUM 'til just this minute, but it seems somewhat compelling. As for Rational, the concepts of the RUP seem sound, but the implementation of the toolset is so poor that I can't help but consider it an indictment of the process too. Rather than getting out of my way, I feel like the tools are constantly interjecting themselves. I have considered that this is just because our team hasn't engaged the process sufficiently, so we're colliding in places. This is my hope.

DevShop got very nice reviews on TechCrunch.

Yeah, seems like people that have seen it are pleased. I don't expect to ever get the chance to really find out unless I strike out on my own and start a software company, however. More's the pity.


Uncommon Sense (for Software)
by dmv at 2:53 pm EDT, Apr 25, 2006

How you place your squigglies won’t affect users in the slightest. But attention to internal code layout details implies that you’re equally attentive to the external details.


 
 
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