15 posts tagged "open spaces"

Regular readers of my ramblings are well aware of my absolute aversion to open spaces, particularly in the context of software engineering.

Last Monday I published the 60th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum, also known as “DPI”, the “unusual magazine about programmers, code, and society, written by humans since 2018.” De Programmatica Ipsum has been published continuously every first Monday of each month since October 2018.

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been in this industry for exactly 25 years. I started my journey as a software developer on Monday, October 6th, 1997. I’ve had the opportunity of sitting down and writing code for a living for a quarter of a century!

Somewhere in the 60’s, something terrible happened. Someone, out of hatred and ignominy, tore down the walls of his or her office, and showed to the corporate world a new way of working.

The most visible star of the Agile galaxy is, without any doubt, the famous, the dreaded, the hyped, the all mighty standup meeting.

Programming is a very opinionated activity. Unfortunately, those opinions are seldom based on facts, and most of them are futile, and lead to stupid arguments on Reddit or Hacker News or the comments section of a blog.

Something very big happened during the last 20 years: The Agile Invasion™®©.

This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

This is the talk I gave at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016.

Many people have asked me why, when I was an employee, I used to change jobs so often.

There are basically two things you can do to earn a living when you write code:

Published in 1975, “The Mythical Man-Month” is considered an all-time classic in the software engineering field.

I strongly consider that the following three items are of high relevance for software project quality:

In Buenos Aires I’ve studied corporate management (I did, shame on me), and as part of that, I had to learn about all the different identified types of organizations: matrix-based, pyramidal, military, organic, etc.

This is the third and last part of the article “My Bookshelf”, with the list of the books that I recommend anyone in the software engineering field to read.