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Have you maintained software whose code bears little resemblance to its design docs and comments? How many times have you seen a detailed and diligently maintained schedule, which is regularly presented to management with lots of green and red highlighting, but which no one in the trenches thinks has...
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Throw Away Your Gantt Charts!
Well, maybe not all of them. Some are so pretty, that uniform cascading of well ordered tasks trickling downhill to perfectly coincide with the deadline. Get color prints made, frame them, and hang them as abstract art. Don’t use them to manage your software development. Balance is an important part...
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