The most important part of software development

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I dint like this chapter so much because its not related to the main story, we just see Webster, Kenoros and Belinda talking about Kenoros grade of each project. This grade is bases on the amount of time dedicated to the designing of the project.  When we talk about design we refer to dividing the project into parts or modules not talking about UI, color, fonts, etc. We see lower grades in projects with more people. Trying to find an explanation Webster asks to Kenoros about this situation.

We learn that projects with a lot of people tend to write a political document and call it design. We just needs a few people for designing the project, you cant put most of the team in stan by until designing team finishes their job. Thats why this stage is skipped in large teams. But thats a big mistake, this is one of the most critical parts in creating software, its like the foundations and steps we need to follow in order to complete our job.

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Belinda once again saves the day an explains how we need to divide the project in the design stage and what advices we can follow. First of all we need to divide the project in chunks of almost the same size this way we have a proportional distribution of all the work needed. Also this chunks must make sense and wee need to order them in a the correct way. We can divide big groups into smaller ones and assign a chunk to each small team. But all teams must know what the others have done and what are they woking on. This way we dont lose time explaining everything to each team.

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A Deadline’s Deadline

--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower

Before reading

Guys I hope you are so proud as I am, it has been quite a journey up here, I’m pretty sure we all have been through things, some of us harder than others but the feeling is the same, I want you for a second, to clear your mind and tell yourselves that you are so proud of youselves, you should be, all the things that you have done are quite admirable, so you do deserve some applauses. Now lets finish this up, yep we are on the final chapter, which means that this journey is about to end, but I am pretty sure you will have plenty of adventures more to be part of, so by now lets finish this, let see how does things end up for our beloved Mr T.

Final Chapter

This time I am not goin to give a wide explanation of the book, I am just telling you what I think you guys want. For the first part of the book Mr T is dreaming, dreaming with a Genie who actually can tell him the future, and of course Mr T wants to know about the future of those who helped him through all the book

  • Belinda: She will just become an U.S. Senator fiom the State of California
  • Mr B: A special assistant in the White House, and then to the Federal Prison at Danbury
  • Airline project: It will be finished, it wil have some trouble but no crashes
  • Markov: He became the Minister of Internal Affairs

Which means that the future of everyone who helped him was actually set up, just one was missing Lahska, the time to leave Morovia had come, he could not say goodbye to his old girl friend, she was the first reason why Mr

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Deadline 22

--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower

Before reading

Well if you got this far let me congratulate you, it has been a long road, this book has been our partner for a while now, we could have read it in one night, but whats the point of that, right? but let me tell you something, we are not finished yet, almost but not done, last time we actually got what we aere looking for, we got Lahska, we got rid of Mr B and now everything seems to be A O K, lets see if the book has for us some other trouble or are we going to deliver our projects now.

Chapter 22

Hey yall looks like we did it, all the effort and sweat and blood what we gave on all the projects finally seems to be blooming , because and pay attention to what I am going to say

  • On May 24 QuickerStill -B delivered
  • On May 29 QuickerStill -C delivered
  • On May 30 PMill-C delivered

You guys know what this means right? Yup, not only we actually finished two of the six projects but we did it just before that Mr B deadly deadline, this means that maybe Mr B’s deadline was not that stupid at the end of the day, at least not for the small projects. Wait a minute, I am receiving another great new, remember that old morovian leader that suddendly left morovia and left Mr B as the new leader, well seems like he is back and he is happy and healthy at all, not Mr B, I am talking about the NNL.

Everyone was happy to see the NNL again, everyone even our beloved Mr T, when they finally get to meet face to face the NNL could not handle his hapiness, little did Mr T knew

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Deadline 20 & 21

--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower

Before reading

It is almost the end of the book and I am really exited about it, I will not give you any spoiler about which is the last chapter so you’ll have to read every single post I post, evil? Maybe, do I do it on purpose? Of course, in this journey we are going together, so if I am not finished neither you are, anyways focus on the book, the last time the book kept flat, nothing exciting and nothing usefull, not a new school lesson so a little meh, not bad and not good, lets see if this thing gets better, I really hope it does.

Chapter 20

One more we get to know from a character that we thought that it was going to be really important to the story but suddendly dissapeared from one day to another, yup you guys know who am I talking about, none other than our dear Lahska, she left a message to Mr T about sending a friend of hers to meet at Morovia, none other than another strange men who apparently got kidnapped and sent to morovia than none nother than that evil disappearing woman we missed.

That strange mas was calles Harry, apparently he was someone really famous, someone who has been writing about everything in the field, an expertise who knos everything what is needed to do things right, and in that moment that was exactly what Mr T wanted. Remember that angry manager from a few chapters before well seems like no one could got rid of him, so our hero told Harry about it, and a few moments later that problem was no longer a problem, that manager got demoted, the thing that was happening with this manager is that he only wanted to rest,

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Deadline 19

--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower

Before reading

In the last chapters we dicussed about the repercutions about conflicts, not only in business, but in every field, and what is the proper way to try to treat those wounds, the trick here is to aply the solution to where it hurts, and allways try to meditate before trying to confrot it directly, just a wise advice from someone that have been into a lot of conflict, so for these chapters I am really hopping for something really juicy and story related, we are almost close to the deadline of the projects and the end of the book so I want juicy things.

Chapter 19

Of course when troubles came in a book they need to be more toubles, so the hero, in this case Mr T gets to decide the best option, not for him but for all the ones who are related to the problem and in this case, those who are afected are none others that the A team projects, seems like after some evaluation all the teams were doing really good, but the team A, the ones who are in charge of Mr B projects, of course this was something that Mr T did not expect to happend at all, he just wanted everyone to develope something worth use, not wanted to let team A go worst and dow.

The main problem here was the strategy that the A team managers were running, aparently the designning that they were doing was nothing useful for the project at all, and the real reason why this was happening is that actually these design was meant to be made by a small group of people, but in A team the group is really large, and in something so important and crucial like the design document we

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Conformity

--Originally published at TI2011 – Press enter to continue…

Wikipedia defines this term as: "Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like minded" The psychologist Solomon Asch did an experiment to understand how people are capable of conforming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA These types of things happen in all kinds of situations, and it's essential to understand that … Continue reading Conformity

Software engineers are basically cats

--Originally published at TI2011 – Press enter to continue…

You may be thinking that I've gone crazy, or perhaps that I'm just a cat person (in fact I'm a dog one, but that's not the point). "Cat" by be creator https://flickr.com/photos/pustovit/15867520885 is licensed under CC BY In the software development world some times there are projects with challenging deadlines, and the managers, if they … Continue reading Software engineers are basically cats

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