Looking back: Software is Art?

The traditional craftsman uses handed down principles and rules of thumb as the basis of his work: experience gained over many years of apprenticeship. The engineer proves his designs at every stage with scientific laws and mathematics. Craft and engineering differ in their techniques but they have a common goal remain the same : to [...]

Crossing the Agile Development experts

Youch! Just before Christmas I posted an article on Agile Development on CIO Online. There’s nothing like constructive feedback, they say, and this was indeed nothing like constructive feedback… so anyway. I collated a set of responses and found I had written too much for the CIO Online comments field, so I have posted my [...]