Jinn of Quality and Risk (2003-Feb-28)

Jinn?

According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes. or use my wishlist (at amazon.com) if you are in the mood for gifts.

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Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2003-Feb-28

Process, quality, and productivity

James O. Coplien: The [Borland Quattro Pro® for Windows] project assimilated requirements, completed design and implementation of 1 million lines of code, and completed testing in 31 months. Coding was done by no more than eight people at a time, which means that individual coding productivity was higher than 1000 lines of code per staff-week. The project capitalized on its small size by centering development activities around daily meetings where architecture, design, and interface issues were socialized. [via Eric Starck via Tesugen.com]

Virtues of p2p

Cory Doctorow interviewed: the recording industry has a story of, We do two really important roles. One is to make music available and the other is to compensate artists. But one of the things we know is that 80 percent of all of the music ever released isn't for sale anywhere in the world. And another thing we know is that 97 percent of the artists signed to a recording contract earn less than $600 per year off of it. So Napster doesn't have a better track record at compensating artists, but it sure as shit had a better track record of making music available. Read the whole thing.

Music appreciation vs soft porn

Patrick Kavanaugh on the increasing display of nudity for classical CD covers: one must ponder why so many brilliant classical musicians have stooped to disrobing in order to sell Bach partitas and Brahms sonatas.

On a related note, I've been predicting for several years now that pop artists will soon merge complete nudity and (soft) pornography into their "performance" — witness the video clips of Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, assorted "boys bands" as well as hip-hop groups; contrast with clips from 10 and 20 years ago. One may argue that a certain lack of musical quality explains the attempt to exploit other esthetic attributes.

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