Quote from EdgeHunter:
Right Chuck,
Your eSignal charting package is Mediocre because IT IS NOT MULTI THREADED AND IS A RESOURCE HOG...
Yet, instead of improving your flagship product you buy out another company...
a move based on fear rather than on craftmanship...
the unexamined life is not worth living...
mediocrity...
how do you accept paychecks for such a hollow integrity...
http://www.mcbreen.ab.ca/SoftwareCraftsmanship/
Software Craftsmanship is a metaphor that can radically transform the way that we create and deliver software systems, with implications for the way we develop software, manage teams and deliver value to the users.
One of the classical problems in Software Engineering is getting engineers to consistently use effective methods, writes Watts Humphries in "Why Donââ¬â¢t They Practice What We Preach?". For smaller teams, Craftsmanship is a more appropriate metaphor than Engineering for getting developers work more effectively.
Craftsmanship has been a model that has been used throughout history to effectively develop and disseminate arts, crafts and technology. By taking a sideways step towards craftsmanship maybe we can eventually advance the state of the art so that we can truly talk about Software Engineering.
* When you look at software, do you get the feeling that it has been developed without adult supervision?
* Is software more critical to your business and yet becoming bloated and buggier?
* Are projects taking longer and delivering less than promised?
* Can you tell when a software project is going off track?
* Is licensing software professionals really going to make any difference?
* The "software crisis" has existed for years and there is still a shortage of good software developers, because mechanical metaphors for software development donââ¬â¢t work.
* Software engineering has fixed many of the technical problems, now we need to focus on the social and cultural aspects of software development
* Software Craftsmanship allows developers to creatively blend Art, Science and Engineering to deliver great systems...
and...
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Craftsmanship.html
It would be nice if you really cared about quality Chuck...
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