A Programmer's Progress http://www.programmers-progress.com/ A work of historical fiction, mainly concerned with the decline and fall of a once-noble profession. en-us http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Profiles in Management http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/the-liar.aspx The Liar The Programmer 2005-11-19 Requirements Are Boring http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/requirements-are-boring.aspx So are architecture and design. Here's what's interesting . . . The Programmer 2005-08-06 Picasso vs. the PMBOK http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/picasso-vs-pmbok.aspx If Picasso had to deal with the stuff I have to deal with . . . The Programmer 2005-07-30 We Don't Have the Money, So We Have to Think http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/money-vs-thought.aspx Most of the big, expensive IT projects that I’m familiar with . . . there really was no reason for them to take so long or cost so much . . . The Programmer 2005-06-27 Targets and Bullets http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/bullets.aspx We missed some targets but we still have bullets . . . The Programmer 2005-06-26 High-Tech Turnaround http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/high-tech-turnaround.aspx The job market has turned around, if by 'turned around' you mean 'continued to disintegrate, but at a slower pace.' The Programmer 2005-06-05 Setting Expectations http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/expectations.aspx Medical professionals are very good at setting realistic expectations with the customer. Software professionals are not. The Programmer 2004-06-03 Fetch! http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/fetch.aspx How many times have you seen someone pretend to throw a ball to a dog, then laugh when the dog tries to chase it anyway? The Programmer 2005-05-15 10 Best Questions to Ask at the End of a Talk When You Absolutely Have To http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/ten-best-questions.aspx From Bertrand Meyer The Programmer 2005-05-15 Three Experts Renounce the Waterfall http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/waterfall.aspx Fred Brooks, Jerry Weinberg and Jeff Sutherland The Programmer 2005-05-07 99 Rules http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/99-rules.aspx Excerpts from Ninety-Nine Rules for Managing 'Better, Faster, Cheaper' Projects The Programmer 2005-04-16 Occupational Intensity http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/occupational-intensity.aspx I rarely see this kind of zest in the workplace anymore . . . The Programmer 2005-04-06 Hacking Redefined http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/hacking-redefined.aspx Business schools redefines hacking as stuff that a 7-year-old could do The Programmer 2005-04-03 Depressing Job Posting of the Week http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/postings-2.aspx The Programmer scours the job boards . . . The Programmer 2005-03-27 Women Leaving IT Considered Discouraging? http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/women-leaving-it.aspx I don't encourage my son to get into IT, nor would I encourage my daughter to get into it, if I had one . . . The Programmer 2005-03-26 Disorganization http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/disorganization.aspx Maybe there is no optimal way to organize such a disjointed collection of information . . . The Programmer 2005-03-06 Soul-Crushing Email of the Day http://www.programmers-progress.com/archive/font-size.aspx If you're going to use the word 'criteria' incorrectly, at least do it in a highly readable 12-point Verdana font. The Programmer 2005-03-05