Chatbots Are Changing the Way Work Gets Done
When I was a teenager chatting on IRC (Internet Relay Chat), I enjoyed playing text-based role-playing games. These were delivered through...
Software development, the Pareto Principle, and the 80% solution
Casey shares his thoughts on utilizing the 80/20 rule to produce software more quickly and for less money.
Parkinson's Law and Software Development
As the leader of a software development agency, I’m in a unique position within my organization. As a software engineer myself, who sees both the business and development side of software engineering, I’m always looking for helpful concepts, paradigms, and principles. Also, and perhaps the most challenging, I lead...The Cost of Not Doing Testing
One of the maxims in software testing is that “testing early and testing often” helps avoid the high cost of deploying a software bug. But it’s hard to quantify what that exact cost is because of all of the factors that go into the software development life cycle, including (but not limited to) an organization’s size, the number of customers, and the employees and resources utilized to debug and fix. There are, however, some statistics that we can look at to determine how damaging bugs can be.
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