Category Archives: Software Engineering

Does Leadership Matter?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Jacques Chester

Below is an essay I wrote for a software engineering course taught by Professor Terry Woodings. It’s already dated, in the sense that since I wrote it, Steve Jobs has died. I’ve mentioned it a few times on forums such … Continue reading →

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Cooking and Coding

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Jacques Chester

Sometimes, when we programmers sit down to explain programming, we resort to the hoary old cooking metaphor. “Programming is like cooking”, we say. “We write recipes, and the computer carries them out”. And sometimes methodologists apply it to our work … Continue reading →

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Agile plans

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Jacques Chester

One of the books I have going at the moment (I tend to multi-task books) is Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning, a fairly concise take on how to obtain these qualities from agile projects. I think that the central … Continue reading →

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