54 Quotes About Software-development

Quality must be enforced, otherwise it won't happen. We programmers must be required to write tests, otherwise we won't do it.

Any software project must have a technical leader, who is responsible for all technical decisions made by the team and have enough authority to make them. Responsibility and authority are two mandatory components that must be present in order to make it possible to call such a person an architect.

The higher the price of information in a software team, the less effective the team is.

We, newbies and young programmers, don't like chaos because it makes us dependent on experts. We have to beg for information and feel bad

We must not blame programmers for their bugs. They belong to them only until the code is merged to the repository. After that, all bugs are ours!

Commitment to deliver on time and on budget was not made based on the details; details didn't exist. Their commitment was based on the ability to shape the details.

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

Chad was a twenty-six-year-old former developer of software used to develop more advanced software. He was now unemployed.