1. Dec 7th, 2006

    Rounded Corners - 70

    What’s on your wall? If you’re involved in project management, it should be Steve McConnell’s comprehensive list of classic mistakes. And you’ve got to appricate the irony that his book is published by Microsoft Press.

    I’d love to see this turned into a checklist, so you can score how bad your project is going. Because, in real life every project has one of these issues, and your goal is to get the lowest score possible.

    Time to upgrade your OS. “I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that’s true, then there really aren’t any stupid people. Just people running DOS.” From 22 ways to overclock your brain.

    Liquified. Paul Ingles is using assert_select to test Liquid tags in Mephisto.

    KISS. Sterling experiments with a new approach to spec writing:

    See Dick and Jane play tag.
    See Dick forget his namespace prefix.
    See Jane throw an exception.
    Run, Dick, run!

    Speaking of simple. REST for toddlers.

    Picture by the usual suspects.

    Posted by Assaf Filed in general

    1. Dec 7th, 2006

      Jordan T. Cox

      … … It’s Caturday!

    2. Dec 7th, 2006

      Chipping the web - calendars met on — Chip’s Quips

      [...] From Assaf, who includes some link-love in the package, comes Steve McConnell’s list of classic mistakes in project management. No matter how many times you’ve been around the block or had your neck across one, you’ll find something to make you say “Ah” — and a lot more that elicits a “Damn right”. [...]

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