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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Have you experienced Fear Driven Development (FDD) ? (hanselman.com) 1

nerdyalien writes: Few years back, I worked for a large-scale news-media related web development project in a South-East Asian country. Despite formally adopting Agile/Scrum as the SDLC, development was driven based on fear imposed by managers, and architects who were proficient in ADD — A**hole Driven Development. Project ran 4x over its initial estimation, and not to forget those horrendous 18 hours/day, 6 days/week shifts with pizza dinners. For better or worse, I was asked to leave half way thru the project due to a row with the manager; which followed with poor performance reviews and delayed promotion. Are FDD and ADD here to stay ?

Comment Re:Help me understand (Score 1) 390

It could be that the Verizon network can't handle the load of unimpeded Netflix traffic from Level 3. Version has two options to mitigate this problem. One is to upgrade the capacity of the entire Verizon network, which would be fairly expensive capital expense. The second is to limit the peering bandwidth with Level 3. Verizon went with the second option, and it obfuscates the root cause of the Netflix network performance issues. As a public corporation, Verizon made the best decision for it's shareholders.

Comment Re:sigh... (Score 1) 169

I actually worked in Kodak Building 82 as a co-op back in 1992. This article brings back all the fond memories of the green glowing goo that would reandomally appear around the office.

If I had any clue that there was a reactor in the same building, fire alarms would have be taken much more seriously. Heck, I would have went straight to my car and go home for the day.

Comment It can be hard to seperate work and personal time (Score 5, Insightful) 230

I did part time telecommuting for a few years. It saved my an hour a day in commute time and reduce my gas purchases by half. There is one downside to telecommuting that wasn't mention in the article. At times, it can be difficult to separate work and personal time. If the work is engaging, it is easy to lose track of time and work many more hours. When working on tasks that are boring and monotonous, it can become impossible to focus. It is much easier to get into work mode when the environment changes.

Comment Re:This is hardly a shock... (Score 1) 324

There have been MVC frameworks for HTML/Javascript clients for many years. I've create a few HTML LOB application that have DI, unit testing of controllers and Moq'ing of data.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd394709.aspx

There is no better satisfaction in deploying a new application version in less than a few minutes at a corporate global enterprise system. The days of loading thousands of client applications are coming to an end.

Comment Re:a good thing for, banks... (Score 1) 181

Reducing the number of time a company report their finances would only hurt the individual investor. Without insider information, how would I know if a company was in dire straights? Regular public updates on a company's performance helps to level the investment playing field.

There were wide swings in the stock market before computer based trading algorithms (ex. Crash of 1929). Reducing transactions probably would not make any changes to our current stock market volatility.

Comment Re:I know I shouldn't complain... (Score 1) 145

At our company it is impossible for a group manager to hire employees. All new hires have to be approved by high level executives. These executives usually have no clue what resources are needed to keep up with the work at the lower levels. They will typically either reject the request or hold out until the next fiscal quarter. The group manager is forced to work extra hours to fill in the gaps in the interim.

That is why I've been out of management for the past three years. It is insane be a group manager and have no authority to hire as needed.

Comment Re:What we'll learn at Build 2011 (Score 1) 580

What is the difference between Native Code Technology and ActiveX controls? I hope that Native Code Technology as you described never see the light of day. The main task of of a web browser it to properly render the standard HTML tags for the user. The latest version of the web browsers are actually doing a good job at displaying standard HTML. The last thing we need is to revert back to working with proprietary plug-in UI controls.

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