Edge Cases 53: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld

Wolf Rentzsch talks about software estimation with Andrew Pontious and why he’s given up even trying (hint: he found something that works better).

Links:

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde « Wikipedia
• Edge Cases tweet: “In our last episode, we said we were taking 1 week off for WWDC. But we’re taking 2 weeks off, sorry! We’ll be back the weekend of 6/22-23.”
• Code Complete, First Edition « Steve McConnell
• Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) « Twitter
• Rapid Development « Steve McConnell
• The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld « Slate Magazine
• The non-linear relationship of coding effort and results « Brent Simmons
• Painless Software Schedules « Joel on Software
• Evidence Based Scheduling « Joel on Software
• Continuous delivery « Wikipedia

Rejected Episode Titles:

• I Think It’s Important That the People Who Don’t Follow Us on Twitter Are Somehow Punished
• We’re Not Topical
• How Long Do You Think the Show’s Going to Be?
• I Liked the Code Complete Before It Was Cool
• He Was Willing to Play Ball with Me
• It’s Pretty Endemic
• I Found a New Guru
• You Know, You’re Such a Programmer
• We Can Throw Science at This
• Infinitely Copyable Bits
• I Should Say “Cat”
• I Could Go on and on About the Rot of Our Profession
• I’m All About Plying You with Bad Metaphors
• A Lot of Thrusting Going On in This Episode
• It Mixes a Time-Tracking Program with a Project-Management Program Mixed with a Bug-Tracker-Type Thing
• A Really Big Merge Problem
• You Gotta Ship for Dub Dub
• I Basically Have Given Up Trying to Estimate Software
• My Bitterness Kind of Soaks in There
• Bolting Things Together and Writing a Bunch of Glue Code
• That Can Be a Big Pill to Swallow
• It Helps with Human Nature