software

Recently Paul M. Jones published great article on the Software Engineering major conflict between Business and Software worlds: Product quality that perfectly matches Robert L.Glass book I’ve been recently reading on “Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering”. If you still didn’t read it - strongly recommended! Just few excerpts on the article: They [engineers] have a reputation to maintain. Low quality for their kind of work is bad for reputation among their peers....

Absolutely great article by Seth Godin on hardware/software perspectives. Looking at the giants, like Apple. Here are some of points from the article: Software can change faster than hardware, which means that in changing markets, bet on software. * It’s tempting to treat the user interface as a piece of fashion, some bling, a sort of jewelry. It’s not. It’s the way your user controls the tool you build. Change it when it stops working, not when you’re bored with it....