Customer Collaboration: on Empathy
The 4th value in the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship reads: Not only customer collaboration, but also productive partnerships. Being “in tune” with our customers has always been one of the most important aspects of my professional life. I have always tried to understand, really understand, the need of a customer; get to know where it [...]
Software Craftsmanship on IRC
The other day I was looking around IRC (it was a long time since I had logged into IRC) and to my surprise I could not find a #software_craftsmanship channel! Long story short (this should be just a little update) I have decided to log into irc.freenode.net whenever I can and be in the #software_craftsmanship [...]
Doug Bradbury in the Wandering Book
Doug Bradbury has added this entry to The Wandering Book recently: I love the point he makes about software development being physical; The learning must get into your bones and muscles for it to be of use to you One thing that most forget is, as Doug reiterates in his entry, that you need to [...]
Danger: Software Craftsmen at Work
In the upcoming Qcon Conference in London David Harvey is giving a talk on Software Craftsmanship with the title, you guessed right, Danger: Software Craftsmen at Work. The abstract of his talk reads as follows: Many – maybe all – of the ideas and practices being paraded under the banner of “Software Craftsmanship” are far [...]
Micah Martin in the Wandering Book
This morning I woke up with a mail from Micah telling me that he had uploaded the pages he wrote in The Wandering Book. I checked the site and I was totally amazed by what I saw. As you can see yourself he used a wonderful font for writing his entry, but above all he [...]