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Month: June 2012

My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012

My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012

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I was at the Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC) 2012 in Oslo. It is one of the best conferences I know in Europe. One reason is, that a lot of alpha-geeks are speaking there. There were during three days 8 parallels tracks, so you have to manage your program. My program looked like this: Wednesday, 6.6.2012 Keynote, Aral Balkan Decisions, Decisions, Dan North Professional Software Development, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Agile Estimating, Mike Cohn Modeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio,…

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Quality isn’t a tool–You can’t install it!

Quality isn’t a tool–You can’t install it!

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Did you ask yourself why a team in an organization produces very good software quality and another team in the same organization just struggles to get things done and those things are in really bad quality? Interesting is also that for both teams exists the same rules (methologies, procedures, tools, frameworks, etc.). But why could and does this happen? Some people – mostly managers or vendors – try to distill quality to a recipe. Vendors could sell it expensively (with…

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