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WTF Refactoring

November 5, 2008

Scene: War Room. 2 days until Code Freeze. LEAD DEVELOPER: So, unfortunately, we’re going to have to pull FavoriteFeature out of the release in order to meet the schedule. THE CRANKY PRODUCT MANAGER: Huh? That feature’s been in the product for 3 releases now. Customers love it. Why do we have to pull it? LEAD [...]

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Caption Contest: The Clockwork Mouse (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Reader Eric submitted this addendum to the original “The 6 Types of Software Engineer.” The Cranky Product Manager liked it so much, she changed the name of the series to “7 Types of Software Engineers.” Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Clockwork Mouse” in this post’s comments. And don’t forget to submit captions for [...]

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Caption Contest: The Maverick (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Moverick” in this post’s comments.  And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… The Maverick The Maverick will do your feature IF he can do it in Ruby on Rails. Or Haskell. Or Python. Or <other hot new language that his peers [...]

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Caption Contest: Offshore (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “Offshore” in this post’s comments. And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… Offshore Where are these guys, anyway, and what time is it there? Who knows; you always have to count the time difference on your fingers. But anyway, they seem very [...]

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Caption Contest: The Teflon-gineer (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Teflong-gineer” in this post’s comments.  And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… The Teflon-gineer The Teflon-gineer will do anything to reduce his work. If you’ve asked for a sports car, this engineer will try his/her damnedest to meet your requirements with [...]

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Caption Contest: The Hotshot (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Submit captions for this cartoon of “The Hotshot” in this post’s comments. And don’t forget to submit captions for the other Software Engineer Types as well… The Hotshot Smart and knows it, often quite young. Has great ideas and hacks crap together at midnight, then… is done. Distinguishing Characteristics: Unfortunately has little appreciation for what [...]

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Caption Contest: The Veteran (The Seven Types of Software Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Fun, fun! Submit your captions in the comments for this cartoon of “The Veteran.” And don’t forget to provide captions for the other Software Engineers Types too! The Veteran He’s been here for five years, and he’ll be here for five more. Distinguishing Characteristics Cranky. For some reason, he’s permitted to use profanity in meetings [...]

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Caption Contest! (7 Types of Engineers)

October 29, 2008

Remember that “6 Types of Software Engineers” post from way back, authored by “Another PM”? Well, a most excellent reader named HW drew some WICKED AWESOME cartoons of each.  PLUS, another wicked awesome reader, Eric, added a 7th type of Engineer – The Clockwork Mouse. So, now we’re going to have some fun — help [...]

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Customer Self Sabotage

October 23, 2008

The Cranky Product Manager flew many miles, suffering through innumerable connections, delays, malnourishing food, and indignities heaped upon her by TSA officials. All to interview this fantastic new customer that just spent a huge wad of cash to buy DysfunctoCrank. Even better, this new customer represented a new and potentially very lucrative market segment. With [...]

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Poll Results: Software Development Methodologies (Agile vs Waterfall)

October 10, 2008

Big thanks to the 119 of you who deigned to answer to the Cranky Product Manager’s lil’ Facebook poll on software development methodologies. The poll is now closed. While this is hardly a scientific poll, the results show a HUGE change in software development methodologies between now (2008) and two years ago (2006). In 2006, [...]

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