Tag Archives: Software Engineering

Low-Code, No-Code, AI-Code… Coding without Coders?

Posted on 31-10-2023 by Bert Laverman

Low-code and no-code have been with us since the nineteen fifties, trying to make programming easy and turn business users into “citizen developers.” Code generation using AIs is taking this approach even further, promising to reduce the formality of the … Continue reading →

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Making Software Development effort more predictable

Posted on 25-09-2015 by Bert Laverman

For a Software Development professional, one of the earliest truths you learn is that estimating the delivery effort for new system is surprisingly hard. A project manager at IBM told me once, back in the nineties, that the difference between … Continue reading →

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On Quality and Value in Software Development

Posted on 21-02-2014 by Bert Laverman

Software Quality is a nice subject to write about. So much to say with plenty of viewpoints to choose from. Wikipedia tells me it is about functional quality (how well it complies  or conforms with design or requirements), or structural … Continue reading →

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How Functional are your Non-Functional Requirements?

Posted on 18-07-2013 by Bert Laverman

Recently a small post on Slashdot concerning an article by Dan Crawford, on the performance of modern dynamic languages in general and JavaScript in particular, showed up and Dan’s site was quickly “slashdotted“. The next day the article was followed up with an … Continue reading →

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Measuring IT Project Success: How we love to go in Denial

Posted on 16-06-2013 by Bert Laverman

In the nineties I had my first Project Management related training, where I was introduced to the Standish Group‘s Chaos Study. This study collected, through question forms, information on IT related projects and their success. The study asked for projects … Continue reading →

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