How I separate my private and professional online browsing
My work-life balance is practically non-existent, but at least my browsing is completely separated…
Superproductivity at Room Temperature
Please turn your cameras on: Remote onboarding of software developers during a pandemic
This week’s paper discusses the challenges of remotely onboarding new developers at Microsoft.
Join the ACM for the magazine, stay for the books
Why an ACM membership is totally worth the money, even if you’re not an academic.
Using planning poker for combining expert estimates in software projects
You probably already know or even use planning poker. This paper tells you how well it works.
Negative results for software effort estimation
The reports of COCOMO’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
The use of UML in software maintenance and its perceived benefits and hurdles
UML documentation makes maintenance easier, but ironically can also be hard to maintain. What practices should you follow or avoid?
Exploring ScrumBut – An empirical study of Scrum anti-patterns
Of course you use Scrum – everyone does! But…
Teamwork quality and project success in software development: A survey of agile development teams
Answers to all the questions you never had about teams.
Empirical study on the relationship between developer’s working habits and efficiency
Bottom line: don’t overdo it.
Building a theory of job rotation in software engineering from an instrumental case study
Change is good, especially for knowledge workers.
Software development waste
Many different types of waste can occur in software development. Here are nine of them.