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JOT
2007
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Form over Substance
Beware of the colleague or supplier who spends large amounts of time in meetings discussing the format, sequence, and wording of documents they will deliver and very little time o...
John McGregor
JOT
2007
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Test Early, Test Often
Nothing does a software company’s reputation more harm than poor quality. One significant contributor to delivered quality is how thoroughly the software is tested. In this issu...
John McGregor
JOT
2006
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Planning before plans
A plan is a blueprint for solving a problem. It summarizes the decisions that have been made during the planning of that solution. In this month's issue of Strategic Software...
John D. McGregor
JOT
2006
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Complexity, its in the mind of the beholder
Complexity is a much analyzed, much debated, much measured property of softwareintensive products. From a strategic point of view, complexity has implications for the development ...
John D. McGregor
JOT
2008
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It depends on what you mean by 'working'
Often efforts to change techniques or processes are met by "But its working, why change now?" Usually the impetous for change comes from someone who does not believe it ...
John McGregor
JOT
2008
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An Increase In Value
Value is not always created as explicitly or as tangibly as with a product that benefits its user and its creator. Increasingly, value emerges from a set of activities and the kno...
John McGregor