Incentive Pay Considered Harmful - Joel on Software

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html A good old Joel article on why you shouldn’t not treat your engineers like pre-K kids.

Software Quality - Be Careful What You Measure - Beyond Bandwidth

http://blog.level3.com/culture/software-quality-be-careful-what-you-measure/ Notes from level3 communications about what to measure (and what not) in software development

Software Quality - Be Careful What You Measure - Beyond Bandwidth

http://blog.level3.com/culture/software-quality-be-careful-what-you-measure/ Notes from level3 communications about what to measure (and what not) in software development

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view

ELC: SpaceX lessons learned [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/540368/ interesting details about software development process at SpaceX [they mainly develop embedded linux stuff]

ELC: SpaceX lessons learned [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/540368/ interesting details about software development process at SpaceX [they mainly develop embedded linux stuff]

Intellectual Cramps: Local Continuous Integration with Hudson and Git

http://intellectualcramps.blogspot.com/2010/04/local-continuous-integration-with.html Short article on how to configure hudson (jenkins) CI with git

1+1 (pat. pending) — Mathematics, Software and Free Speech (application/pdf Object)

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/1+1.pdf Why Software and Patents Need To Get a Divorce~ by PolR. Long article posted by Groklaw website that presents a view point that software is really a mathematics and thus cannot be patented. Also this article presents the legal system’s view of computer software and shows that view is really different from what we (geeks, engineers) know as computer software

Characterizing the Software Process A Maturity Framework / 87tr011.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/reports/87tr011.pdf Original paper [report] by Watts Humphrey, which is later become the famost CMM book. (Managing the Software Process, by Watts Humphrey, originally published in 1989) . Also see http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag;=mozilla-20&index;=blended&link;_code=qs&field-keywords;=Managing%20the%20Software%20Process