16-May-2006

Searches for agile and processes

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis has been playing with Google Trends and presents the results of searching for the words CMM & CMMI versus agile. It shows that current interest in the two topics is about equal, but interest in the term, agile, is steadily increasing. Interest about CMM/CMMI seems to be greatest in speakers of the Korean, Thai, Portuguese and Chinese language.

Are we self-critical?

Cesar Tardaguila in design-nation.blog/es posts a link to the article, Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it) by Damien Katz. Some of the 'signs' can be taken with a pinch of salt. The lesson to take from that article is that we should be self-critical, although there are situation when 'best practices' need to be violated. Common sense should always be applied, but that is never easy.