I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include thoughts from experts on different aspects of making good software, a site for canned emails, an interview with Karpov and an image from when Microsoft developers enjoyed working on Windows.<\/p>\n
1. Dave Snowden on software processes<\/a> 1. Dave Snowden on software processes<\/a> 2. Gerald Weinberg on the 8 Fs of Software Failure<\/a> 3. Canned Emails<\/a>
\n2. Gerald Weinberg on the 8 Fs of Software Failure<\/a>
\n3. Canned Emails<\/a>
\n4. Anatoly Karpov tells all<\/a>
\n5. Back when Windows had character<\/a><\/p>\nMy notes:<\/h3>\n
\nDave Snowden is one of the co-creators of the Cynefin<\/a> (pronounced Kana-win) framework. This 45 minute talk was fantastic. For software professionals that intuitively feel that software is not always a manufacturing process, this talk will arm you with theory, vocabulary and models to verbalize your ideas. I have watched this video multiple times and kept notes. Yet, after every viewing, I end up noticing new ideas. I cannot recommend this talk enough. <\/p>\n
\nAnother excellent article (book chapter) from Jerry Weinberg. This article made me think about the ways I am failing and things I can do to improve. If you are past the notion that software failures can be prevented one bug at a time, and are searching for a better way, this article could help you on your journey.<\/p>\n
\nSomeone has put up a website for canned emails for common situations. Excellent resource for inarticulate and word-challenged folk like me.<\/p>\n
![Back when Windows had character<\/a><\/p>\nMy notes:<\/h3>\n1. Dave Snowden on software processes<\/a>\nDave Snowden is one of the co-creators of the Cynefin<\/a> (pronounced Kana-win) framework. This 45 minute talk was fantastic. For software professionals that intuitively feel that software is not always a manufacturing process, this talk will arm you with theory, vocabulary and models to verbalize your ideas. I have watched this video multiple times and kept notes. Yet, after every viewing, I end up noticing new ideas. I cannot recommend this talk enough. <\/p>\n2. Gerald Weinberg on the 8 Fs of Software Failure<\/a>\nAnother excellent article (book chapter) from Jerry Weinberg. This article made me think about the ways I am failing and things I can do to improve. If you are past the notion that software failures can be prevented one bug at a time, and are searching for a better way, this article could help you on your journey.<\/p>\n3. Canned Emails<\/a>\nSomeone has put up a website for canned emails for common situations. Excellent resource for inarticulate and word-challenged folk like me.<\/p>\n4. Anatoly Karpov tells all<\/a>\nChessbase is running a three part series on an extensive interview with the 12th World Champion – Anatoly Karpov. I am a fan of every world champion that lived and Karpov is no exception. <\/p>\n5. Back when Windows had character<\/a>\nWindows 95 had hints that developers really enjoyed working on the product. This is kind of the developer humor I expect from software that is going to take over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include thoughts from experts on different aspects of making good software, a site for canned emails, an interview with Karpov and an image from when Microsoft developers enjoyed working on Windows. 1. Dave Snowden on software processes 2. Gerald Weinberg on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ochHuow.jpg?1\"){kind=link}