Month: January 2009

  • Climbing the Skill Hill

    What happens if five developers engage into a huge project? As projectmanager or technical teamlead you really would like to see all of your developers to contribute for about the same amount to all of the source code, right? Although this is not easy to measure, one of the measurements available to us is simply…

  • Schedule in small chunks

    Programmers need to get work done. It's always surprising for me to see programmers make estimates for projects with tasks taking more than two days. How do you know what your progress is if you are working on something for two whole days and you could not 'nodge an item off your list'? Getting real…