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If you don't already know Dilbert, you should get to know him – especially, if you are employed in th IT sector – and enjoy your daily dilbert.

I just have to link some of the strips here, all about management: this one, this one and this one.

Posted by Andreas Lenz

...die gerade wieder unter uns sind, aber auch für alle sonstigen, die schon einmal auf die eine oder andere Weise das Vergnügen mit XP (Extreme Programming) hatten: XP bei Dilbert

Posted by Andreas Lenz

A nice example how not to design user interfaces is OPAC, an online search engine used by university libraries. Lots of students and post-graduates are dissatisfied because of getting results matching to their request in a syntactical manner, but not being able to get the books and publications having the content they really need. What would have happened, if Amazon came along with such an interface?
David Walker, web development librarian at the Cal State San Marcos , implemented a look-alike frontend using Web-Service technology to get the book metadata from Amazon. Enjoy.

[via Annette and netbib]

Posted by Andreas Lenz

Das Wasserfallmodell ist zurück! Einfach herrlich. Auf dieser Konferenz wird sich der gefrustete Softwareentwickler sicher wohlfühlen. Vorträge wie

• Pair Managing: Two Managers per Programmer
• Two-Phase Waterfall: Implementation Considered Harmful
  ("So I bought an MDA tool and started drawing designs that the tool could execute. What a joy! There were no programmers to ruin my design. There were not crass coding issues to destroy the abstract beauty of my structures. I was sure this was the answer.")
• wordUnit: A Document Testing Framework (Kent Beck)
  ("Writing WordUnit tests in advance of writing documents, also known as Document-Driven Documentation, is a further refinement that leads to even greater efficiency and productivity.")

werden ihm aus der Seele sprechen. Also: gleich anmelden! ("We're sorry but registration is not yet ready. Our software developers have a really wonderful design. They're almost done entering it into it a UML tool. They've told us not to worry and that finishing it will be »trivial« because »all that's left is the coding.«") (Danke, Manfred, für den Hinweis auf diese Seite.)

Posted by Andreas Lenz