©1999 Johanna Rothman “Ship it!” Do you say these words with a feeling of pride? Or a feeling of desperation? For any project, the big question is “when will the project be ready to ship?” When is the project complete? You can’t know when the project is ready, unless you know what “complete” means. I […]
©1999 Johanna Rothman “The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42” –. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Some people think there’s a specific answer to questions such as: “What’s the correct staffing ratio for developers to testers in a software development organization?” “What’s the best project management
©1999 Johanna Rothman I just read an article by a well-known author. He claimed that your first project slip isn’t so bad; the third or fourth project slips are the bad ones. In my mind, red flags went up. I flipped the bozo bit on the author. I completely disagree with his conclusion. The first
©1999 Johanna Rothman I was recently at a presentation at which a well-known measurement guru spoke. He said that most people don’t know the value of a basic measurement: the cost to fix a defect. I was surprised, so at the next few conferences, I asked people in my presentations how much it cost their