#methodology (13 links)
- Stop Breaking the Web ponyfoo.com
<blockquote>TL;DR We are crushing the web. Dedicated client-side rendering sucks. Polyfills are used for all the wrong reasons. Those hideous-looking hash routers are bad and we should feel bad. We have been telling each other for years that progressive enhancement is great, and yet we're doing very little about it!</blockquote>
- The Twelve-Factor App 12factor.net
A methodology for building software-as-a-service apps
- ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy tbray.org
Here’s my thesis: As a profession, we do a lot more software maintenance than we do greenfield development. And it’s at the maintenance end where TDD really pays off. I’m starting to see lapses from the TDD credo as more and more forgivable the closer you are to the beginning of a project. And conversely, entirely abhorrent while in maintenance mode.
- Method Cards - Case Studies - IDEO ideo.com
A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects.
- Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software joelonsoftware.com
Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.
- In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Click streams have made room for bounce rates, search analytics, and so much more. If we play our cards right, we can reduce and synthesize the raw data and give our clients more meaningful information that foments action.
- The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user.
- adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » UXweek2007: Leisa Reichelt on Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good adaptivepath.com
Notes from Leisa Richelt presentation.
- scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Asshole driven development scottberkun.com
If we’re going to have dozens of models we may as well have some that are honest, however cynical, to what’s really going on much of the time.
What project management (PM) is and what it isn't, [...] basics of the project lifecycle, [...] tools that you can use to make your projects run smoother, faster, and easier
- Adobe edits the development cycle | Reg Developer regdeveloper.co.uk
For years the Adobe Photoshop team has been trying to get away from the traditional death march to a more agile development style. For its CS3 release, it made the jump, with the help of VP Dave Story.
- Extreme Web Development | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
The best known agile methodology is Extreme Programming (XP) and it provides some very interesting ideas for the web development world.