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Article by Elisabeth Hendrickson |
Mar 5 2003 - 5:41pm Assess the state of your career by making a list of the positives and negatives. By creating your dream job on paper you can form a plan to help you get there. Elisabeth Hendrickson encourages you to make the time to take stock of your current career situation. Read More
Article by Johanna Rothman |
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Mar 4 2003 - 12:23pm Here's a puzzle: If one defect has a severity rating of 3 and a priority rating of 2, and another defect has a severity rating of 2 and a priority rating of 3, which one do you fix first? In this week's column, Johanna Rothman tells why she thinks severity/priority combinations can be confusing, and she offers her own simpler, three-tiered rating system. Read More
Article by Esther Derby |
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Feb 11 2003 - 2:20pm The go-go days of the '90s are gone, and with them extravagant hiring budgets. Most companies are being more conservative in making offers to candidates. If you're working on a tight hiring budget, how can you make the most of your hiring power? Esther Derby offers some advice on how to increase productivity after the candidate is in the door. Read More
Article by Rick Craig |
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Feb 7 2003 - 12:43pm Measuring activities are vital to the software test process. On this site, there are more than 200 items (articles, tools, templates, etc.) classified under the topic "measurement." But what good are all the bits and pieces of data that you collect? In this week's column, veteran software tester Rick Craig outlines some of the practical uses for metrics. Read More
Article by Carol Dekkers |
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Jan 31 2003 - 1:19pm In the "Venus and Mars" series of mainstream relationship books, author John Gray attests that differences in outlook and inherited traits account for relationship problems between genders. His position is that men and women come from inherently different places and therefore approach things from inherently different perspectives. In this week's column, Carol Dekkers explores how some of the issues in software development might be similarly rooted in differences between the software development and customer communities. Read More
Article by Jyoti M Bhat, Anoop Kumar |
Jan 27 2003 - 7:56pm This paper discusses how software projects following different processes, which display disparate characteristics, have been categorized and analyzed using statistical techniques to measure and improve process capability. The analysis shows that language type, size of the application and complexity (represented by ratio of Total Project Effort to Build Phase Effort) are the predominant discriminating factors affecting quality and process parameters. Categorization done based on this stratification scheme results in minimum variation within the group concerned. Such logical grouping also facilitates meaningful comparison of a project performance with almost similar historical data. This paper received the Best Practice award at the SEPG Conference on Tour in Asia Pac 2002. Read More
Article by Rex Black |
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Jan 17 2003 - 1:07pm It's 2003, and you're a manager casting about for a good New Year's resolution. Sure, going to the gym, quitting cigarettes, cutting down on the cheeseburgers-those are all good resolutions for you personally. But how about a resolution that helps you professionally, and will help everyone who works for you? How about resolving to stop destroying your team with bad MBOs? Find out how, in this week's column by Rex Black. Read More
Article by Esther Derby |
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Dec 31 2002 - 1:57pm People who work in software are smart people. We take pride in our ability to understand complex information and solve difficult problems. What about that other IQ, our Influence Quotient? Much of the work we do requires the help and cooperation of other people, and that means using influence. In this week's column, Esther Derby helps us listen in on two conversations to see what we can learn about improving our everyday influencing skills. Read More
Article by Eric Patel |
Dec 27 2002 - 3:24pm Professional development activities can help you stay competitive in the marketplace. Eric Patel describes ways you can benefit from extracurricular career activities such as volunteering, joining professional associations, attending and speaking at conferences, and pursuing continuing education. Read More
Article by Sheryl Smith |
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Dec 26 2002 - 2:47pm "There's a little something in it for you if the product is ready for testing next week." To make a date, have you ever resorted to offering or accepting such a payout? You don't often encounter the technique in management books, but we all know that people can be motivated by money. In this week's column, Sheryl Smith imagines a scenario where the equipment is "bribed" to speed delivery. Read on for the point of view from inside the computer. Read More
