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21 Jun 2013
The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
Wolf Rentzsch talks about software estimation with Andrew Pontious and why he’s given up even trying (hint: he found something that works better).
Links:
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde « Wikipedia
- Edge Cases tweet: “In our last episode, we said we were taking 1 week off for WWDC. But we’re taking 2 weeks off, sorry! We’ll be back the weekend of 6/22-23.”
- Code Complete, First Edition « Steve McConnell
- Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) « Twitter
- Rapid Development « Steve McConnell
- The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld « Slate Magazine
- The non-linear relationship of coding effort and results « Brent Simmons
- Painless Software Schedules « Joel on Software
- Evidence Based Scheduling « Joel on Software
- Continuous delivery « Wikipedia
Rejected Episode Titles:
- I Think It’s Important That the People Who Don’t Follow Us on Twitter Are Somehow Punished
- We’re Not Topical
- How Long Do You Think the Show’s Going to Be?
- I Liked the Code Complete Before It Was Cool
- He Was Willing to Play Ball with Me
- It’s Pretty Endemic
- I Found a New Guru
- You Know, You’re Such a Programmer
- We Can Throw Science at This
- Infinitely Copyable Bits
- I Should Say “Cat”
- I Could Go on and on About the Rot of Our Profession
- I’m All About Plying You with Bad Metaphors
- A Lot of Thrusting Going On in This Episode
- It Mixes a Time-Tracking Program with a Project-Management Program Mixed with a Bug-Tracker-Type Thing
- A Really Big Merge Problem
- You Gotta Ship for Dub Dub
- I Basically Have Given Up Trying to Estimate Software
- My Bitterness Kind of Soaks in There
- Bolting Things Together and Writing a Bunch of Glue Code
- That Can Be a Big Pill to Swallow
- It Helps with Human Nature