Managermind

As committed software engineer one sooner or later asks him or herself where to work. Which is the best employer, where can one develop the best, has the most interesting challenges and so on.

Steve Jones answers in the referenced posting to a blog entry from Joel Spolsky also known as Joel on Software. I found this comparison very interesting and also slighly amusing… enjoy!

http://service-architecture.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-corporate-it-means-something.html 

An interesting techtalk on “Competing On The Basis Of Speed” by Mary Poppendieck about the importance of speed for every business.

I like it, even if it nothing very exciting or new and follows basic principals of modern programming paradigms. The concept of test-first, refactoring as well as short-iterations are well supported in various continous integration tools.