Oftentimes people are assigned into projects by looking into resource pools and determining some key characteristics of each resource: what is the current utilization rate, what do reservation calendars look like and on some more sophisticated scenarios, also each person’s skill sets are taken into consideration. But this model is far from ideal for numerous reasons. (more…)
Behind every person is an inner story. A story that describes her world-view and thus her behaviour. The story may not be consciously written but silently adopted – and adapted – from local contemporary culture, childhood, genes and so on. All the books you read and stories you heard contributed to your story.
But there are sub-stories also. In physics we have had Newtonian and Einsteinian stories, and these stories constantly change. In this post I urge you to think what are your stories of software development. There are at least three different types of stories that define you as a software developer.
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A while ago I attended an evening organized by Tietotoviikko. They had a few presentations and an ending panel discussion having members from both client and supplier side and also a researcher.
The topics of discussion were IT-suppliers ability to keep their promises, customers’ expectations towards their suppliers and what makes real partnership.
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