http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:52:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Best Webfoot Forward » VanDev talk summary Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:28:08 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/#comment-216 [...] some people who have measured coding speed, however. I have reported previously on experiments by Demarco and Lister, Dickey, Sachman, Curtis, and Ko which measure the time for a number of programmers to do a task. [...] [...] some people who have measured coding speed, however. I have reported previously on experiments by Demarco and Lister, Dickey, Sachman, Curtis, and Ko which measure the time for a number of programmers to do a task. [...]

]]> http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/comment-page-1/#comment-215 People Over Process » Blog Archive » Gaming Your Context, or, Methodology by Constraints Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:19:38 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/#comment-215 [...] In response to one of Anne’s recent bookmarks — every pro-office (a room, not Microsoft) coders favorite study — Christopher Mahan leave a nice reply about the Super Code Monkey: No, the 10,000 times more productive developer is the one who has the experience, the guts, the curiosity, the hard-headedness and the stick-to-itiveness to go forth and take over entirely unchartered territories.This developer has carefully selected his tools, mastered his environment, from the idiosyncrasies of his OS, to writing lexical parsers for his language of choice in his language of choice, to tackling problems that to management seem like utter wastes of time but that could resolve a obscure bug on an obscure product, a bug so obscure it has only occurred three times in the History of Computing. Yet, it is in this utter dedication to that task that the brain trains itself to be devastatingly thorough, to anticipate the impact of every single byte on the expected result, to watch in his mind’s eye avenues of opportunities and dead-end boulevards unfold ever-forward, beyond release date, beyond maintenance and product end-of-life, all the way to its ultimate impact on the common psyche of programmers, as tricks of the trade and techniques passed from generation to generation. [...] [...] In response to one of Anne’s recent bookmarks — every pro-office (a room, not Microsoft) coders favorite study — Christopher Mahan leave a nice reply about the Super Code Monkey: No, the 10,000 times more productive developer is the one who has the experience, the guts, the curiosity, the hard-headedness and the stick-to-itiveness to go forth and take over entirely unchartered territories.This developer has carefully selected his tools, mastered his environment, from the idiosyncrasies of his OS, to writing lexical parsers for his language of choice in his language of choice, to tackling problems that to management seem like utter wastes of time but that could resolve a obscure bug on an obscure product, a bug so obscure it has only occurred three times in the History of Computing. Yet, it is in this utter dedication to that task that the brain trains itself to be devastatingly thorough, to anticipate the impact of every single byte on the expected result, to watch in his mind’s eye avenues of opportunities and dead-end boulevards unfold ever-forward, beyond release date, beyond maintenance and product end-of-life, all the way to its ultimate impact on the common psyche of programmers, as tricks of the trade and techniques passed from generation to generation. [...]

]]> http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/comment-page-1/#comment-214 tech decentral » links for 2007-02-17 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:26:19 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/#comment-214 [...] pm. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « links for2007-02-16 [...] [...] pm. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « links for2007-02-16 [...]

]]> http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Jokes Blog Search » Blog Archive » DeMarco and Lister Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:49:13 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2007/02/16/demarco-and-lister/#comment-213 [...] read more… [...] [...] read more… [...]

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