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Originally posted by Jared Richardson:
Don't decide that you'll never need the tool before you've learned about it.
Originally posted by Hari Vignesh Padmanaban:
I feel that the most of the agile processes involved do not apply really to this industry where the requirements are quite fixed and rarely change? (most of the projects take 1-2 years to complete)
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
Hari, ask those in the automation and control industry. .
If you address authors you might get a Veebee programmer who published a book, has some development experience but is otherwise oblivious to excellence in software and how one achieves that
Jared Richardson is a developer-turned-manager who thinks a good day is having everything delegated so that he can sneak away and actually write code. He specializes in using off-the-shelf technologies to solve tough problems, especially those involving the software development process. With more than 10 years of experience, Jared has been a consultant, developer, tester, and manager, including Director of Development at several companies. He currently manages a team of developers and testers at SAS Inc., and is responsible for a company-wide effort to increase the use of test automation to improve the quality of SAS products.
Will Gwaltney is a software developer with over 20 years experience. In that time he hasn't quite seen it all, but he's seen most of it (and a lot of it hasn't been pretty). He's worked at both large companies and start-ups in the fields of electronics CAD, networking, telecommunications, knowledge representation, and web-based planning and scheduling for the enterprise. Will currently works on test automation at SAS Inc., the largest privately-owned software company in the world
Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
I'd agree that a new developer entirely unfamiliar with software engineering principles and basic software practices (use version control, use unit tests) would benefit from the book, assuming no access to other books on the subject.
Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
Sorry, Ship It! is a dud from start to end.
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Originally posted by Jared Richardson:
Hi all,
Thanks for the kind words Hari. There are three important things to bear in mind.
1) Not everyone will like every book. This is a given. It's OK that Rick doesn't like Ship It.
2) There are a few people who do like the book. Some are better known than Rick. http://www.jaredrichardson.net/quotes.html
3) There will always be people who derive their sense of self worth from how many arguments they can start. This is not unique to the internet. You can deprive them of that feeling of power by simply ignoring them.
[ August 06, 2005: Message edited by: Jared Richardson ]