© 2001 Johanna Rothman. This article was originally published in STQE, Volume 2, Number 5, September/October 2001. “Test is always at the end of the schedule. We never test for as long as we need to. We get whipped around by whatever the developers do. It just isn’t fair.” “We don’t have enough testers.” “My management […]
by Johanna Rothman. Originally published in Cutter’s Business-IT Alignment E-Mail Advisor, December 8, 1999. I was recently with a client that was having trouble completing its high-level design spec for a key internal system. The spec the designer delivered was 50 pages of dense text in a small type size. The sponsor refused to read
by Johanna Rothman. This article was originally published in Software Devleopment Magazine, December 1999. I’ve had great managers, and I’ve had lousy managers. The great managers always seemed to be pushing forward, solving problems and thinking about better ways to do things. The lousy managers repeated their mistakes on project after project; they claimed to
©1999 Johanna Rothman “With man’s great ability to think, reason, and compute, we can now pinpoint most of our current problems. The trouble is that we can’t solve them.” I walked in, and put my briefcase down. I fished out my dress shoes, and had one sneaker off before Ted barged in. “JR, I can’t
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