Humanistic view of development

Software is written by humans–emotional, fallible, creative, and messy–for other humans. Any attempt to treat development as robotic will end in tears.

Kent Beck

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Peopleware

J’ai enfin lu ce grand classique, ce n’est pas un hazard si sur Amazon PeopleWare est vendu avec The mythical man-month. Les deux sont des lectures impératives pour les chefs de projets et le management en général.
Quelques extraits des passages qui ont le plus retenu mon attention.

“When you automate a previously all-human system, it becomes [...]

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Continuous integration

Continuous integration is the ultimate solution to the good ol’ “hey but it works on my machine” issue.
Henrik Kniberg Scrum and Xp from the trenches

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  • "ECM is documents pretending to be content and WCM is content pretending to be documents"

    Seth Gottlieb

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  • "running a number of servers on the departmental secretary's credit card; after all, computing resources are just office supplies"

    Michael Nygard

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  • "La séparation physique entre la couche Web et la couche métier a été dictée par des vendeurs… de hardwares"

    Julien Dubois

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