elephantangelchild

This is an occasional series in which I cover a small aspect of a book that currently has my attention. It's not intended as a review, but perhaps a morsel that might get people to read some of the great books out there right now.
Yesterday, I mentioned the corners of projects that collected poor code and lost docs like the underside of skirted couches gather dust bunnies and petrified Pop Tarts (also, baby bottles, one of which I once found when my son was four. Ewww...)....

One of the questions I get via Twitter and comments is how do I track requirements. When I came into a job that had gathering requirements as a part of its duties, I got the duties without any sort of best practices (one of the quirks about coming onto...

Note: I'm utterly swamped, so doing a repost of an article I wrote a while back that I've always been fond of. Here's to hoping next week is calmer!
In the beginning, there was the command line, and we were grateful for it, darn it. A single blinking underscore in orange or amber or green (depending one what strange theory was vogue about eyestrain at the time) was all we needed to get our computers...

When people ask what kind of shop we are, I usually answer for the Python group. We're an agile shop in a waterfall environment. However, that isn't true throughout the contract I'm on. Some of us are pure waterfall. Other groups work in two-week iterations...